Agreed. This seems like a great thread for public-webapps. On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sep 8, 2009, at 6:16 PM, Jian Li wrote: > > In WebKit, XMLHttpRequest.send() supports sending single file. It would be > better if we can support sending multiple files, like FileList (see bug > 25923 <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25923>). > In addition, XMLHttpRequest.send() only sends the raw content of the file, > without including the multipart boundary separators (see bug > 26979<https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26979> > ). > > To resolve these issues, we can enhance XMLHttpRequest.send() to support a > FileList object and add multipart boundary separators support. > > Or, the other simpler way (thanks for suggestion from Darin Fisher) is to > extend XMLHttpRequest.send() to take an array of items. Each of item could > either be a string or a file reference. The web application is responsible > to generate the miultipart enevelop like the following: > > var payload = new Array; > payload.push(header1); > payload.push(file1); > payload.push(footer1); > ... > xhr.send(payload); > > How do you guys think about these approaches? > > > I'd suggest proposing these ideas to the W3C Web Apps Working Group. I am > sure people there will have opinions. I'd like our approach here to be > aligned with other browsers. > > Personally, I think the ability to mix strings and files is most useful, > thus I like the array approach. However, it would require defining what > happens to array elements that are not either a string or a File object. > > Regards, > Maciej > > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > >
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