- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:00:06 +0200
- To: "Webapps WG" <public-webapps@w3.org>, "Jonas Sicking" <jonas@sicking.cc>
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:52:21 +0200, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote: > When a Blob is appended to a FormData, the XHR2 spec currently says > that the filename used should be the empty string unless the Blob is > also a File. If such a FormData is later submitted using > XMLHttpRequest, this will result in a request that contains something > similar to: > > Content-Disposition: form-data; name="myblob"; filename="" > > Unfortunately there appears to be some servers that are unable to deal > with the filename parameter being empty. See details and examples in > [1]. Chrome apparently already disregards the specification here and > generates a seemingly random value for the filename parameter. > > Unless someone comes up with a reason otherwise, I suspect we need to > change the spec here. > > [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649150 Just set it to "blob" maybe? Or "blob.bin" or some such? -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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