Re: allow use of multipart/form-data in draft-reschke-webdav-post

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 11:15:02AM +0100, Arnaud Quillaud wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Late comment on draft-reschke-webdav-post:
> 
> Browser based applications are not allowed to upload files from the 
> client filesystem by any mean other than using an HTML form containing a 
> file param and an enctype of multipart/form-data. As a consequence, 
> those applications have no way to upload local files to a WebDAV 
> repository using PUT (my knowledge of browser based technologies is 
> rather limited but I have found at least a few references to this 
> limitation).
> 
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-reschke-webdav-post could partially 
> solve this issue by simply allowing a multipart/form-data containing a 
> single subpart to be POSTed.
> 
> Modifying a resource by uploading it again would still not be possible 
> of course but that can be somehow workarounded.
> 
> Arnaud Quillaud

Wouldn't it be easier (and a cleaner solution) if the browsers just supported PUT/WebDAV?

P.T.

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