Re: Proposal for sending multiple files via XMLHttpRequest.send()

Yay!

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote:
>>>> WebKit presently supports sending File.  It does not support FileData
>>>> yet.
>>>
>>> Is Content-Type set to anything specific if the author has not set it?
>>
>> // FIXME: Should we set a Content-Type if one is not set.
>>
>> ^^^ looks like it presently depends on the web page setting the C-T header
>> manually :-/  I think that should be fixed to be based on the system's
>> knowledge of the file's mime type.
>
> So far I have only added support for Blob (the new FileData) of these two
> and set the Content-Type to application/octet-stream if not provided by the
> Web author. Should I also add File and set the Content-Type to
> File.mediaType?

I definitely think so yes.

Same thing for the send() function.

On a separate note, is sending "application/octet-stream" really
better than simply sending no Content-Type header at all when sending
a Blob (or a File with empty mediaType)?

/ Jonas

Received on Tuesday, 10 November 2009 15:49:10 UTC