- From: Arnaud Quillaud <Arnaud.Quillaud@Sun.COM>
- Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:04:11 +0100
- To: Petr Tomasek <tomasek@etf.cuni.cz>
- Cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
On 11/2/09 8:36 PM, Petr Tomasek wrote: > 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? > It might be cleaner but definitely not easier to get this standardized on all browsers (and have all legacy browsers disappear). Found a page describing the behavior of different browsers at http://pseudo-flaw.net/content/web-browsers/form-data-encoding-roundup/ Arnaud Quillaud > P.T. > >
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