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Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 21:27:42 +0200 (MET DST)
From: "Onime Clement" <onime@ictp.trieste.it>
To: Lena@lena.kiev.ua
Cc: www4mail-comments@w3.org
Subject: Re: Lost feature
Dear Lena,
Maybe it is easier on us all, if you can try to send your data as UUENCODED.
I hope your mail client supports uuencoding, if not, do consider improving
your mail client. The newer gateways can handle incoming uuencoded mails as
well.
Unfortunately, the newer gateways do not support [] for blocking text as it
was found to be unstable, However the 3.0 gateways also treat the { } signs
in the same way.
The use of plain text encoding for complex page submissions is not
encouraged. Intrestingly enough, I do believe that the use of a web
browser will generate the right encoding as an email for the www4mail
gateway. You may choose to try the XJSDUMP with a web browser to obtain the
correct encoded strings in a browser window.
So, you can try to use the { } instead of [ ].
However, the use of a web browser is recommended.
Well, the www4mail manuals need a major revision/updating.
Clement
> Hello,
>
> A quote from "HELP FORMS":
>
>> 3. NOTES ON SUBMITTING MULTI-LINE DATA
>> For submitting multi-line data, you may use the following
>> table to get different behaviour from the www4mail server.
>
>> [ First line
>> second line
>> third line
>> ...
>> last line ]
>>
>> Your data will be submitted to the WEB server as one
>> line with each line separated by %0D0A (the Enter or Return key).
>
>> If you are using the TEXT mode then make sure that the {, ( or [ or {(
>> comes after the = sign on the same line.
>> If you use a web browser then make sure that the first character of
>> your entry is the {, ( , [ or {( sign(s).
>
> www4mail versions 2.2 and 2.4 support this feature. Example:
>
>> To: www4mail@ftp.uni-stuttgart.de
>>
>> XBASE=http://www.lena-kiev.f2s.com
>> XNOSTAT
>> XFORMREPLY=SOURCE
>> XFORM=form method post action "/displayform.pl"
>> a=[b
>> cd
>> e=f]
>> XSUBMIT_NOW = on
>> XFORM= /form
>
> Resulting posted string: a=b%0D%0acd%0D%0ae%3Df
> All is OK, as intended.
>
> But www4mail version 3.0/pre3.0rc12b doesn't support this feature, the
> [ ] are treated as just data. Example:
>
>> To: www4mail@collaborium.org
>>
>> XBASE=http://www.lena-kiev.f2s.com
>> XNOSTAT
>> XFORMREPLY=SOURCE
>> XFORM=:post::/displayform.pl
>> a=[b
>> cd
>> e=f]
>> XSUBMIT_NOW = on
>> XFORM= /form
>
> Resulting posted string: a=%5Bb&e=f%5D
>
> Second line of content of the textarea lost, third line erroneously
> treated as separate form field.
>
> The test script I wrote, installed and used for these examples:
>
>> #!/usr/bin/perl
>> print "Content-type: text/plain\n\nSTDIN: ";
>> while ( <STDIN> ) { print; }
>> print "\nEnvironment:\n";
>> foreach ( sort keys %ENV ) { print "$_ = $ENV{$_}\n"; }
>
> Please reinstate the feature. To add "%0D%0A\" at the end of
> each line in multi-line content of textarea is cumbersome.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lena