Re: [XHR2] Blobs, names and FormData

2011/6/29 Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>

> On Wednesday, June 29, 2011, Alfonso Martínez de Lizarrondo
> <amla70@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I didn't notice this thread and I filed [1] in webkit due to this
> behavior.
> > Providing an automatic filename it's better than sending an empty one,
> but it fails to address interaction with existing systems (some might refuse
> the upload if it doesn't look like a correct file type, at the very least a
> proper extension). The usual "solution" suggested/used when people create
> samples or code using these features is to add extra headers to send the
> desired filename, but that means that the server code has to be updated to
> handle this behavior.
> > This lead to the problem that it's not possible to provide an enhanced
> client-side feature like uploading of pasted images in webkit because it
> needs also changes to the server, and the level of changes might be quite
> different as people might be using quite different backends.
> > If the FormData could be expanded so that when doing a
> formdata.append("elementName", blob); could allow a third parameter to
> specify the filename to use then this could greatly simplify using new
> features.
> > Another option would be to allow a "filename" property on Blobs, but I'm
> not sure if that's correct as I think that right now the only use of that
> property would be when used with FormData.
> >
> > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63388
>
> Ok, so if I understand the problem correctly, it is that some servers
> only accept files with certain extensions, which fail here since
> "blob" doesn't have any extension.
>
> I'll note that not having control of the rest of the filename is
> nothing new since that's traditionally always been "whatever the name
> is on the users file system".
>
> I'd prefer to solve this be adding a .getFile(in DOMString name)
> function on BlobBuilder.
>
> That way you can create a file, with whatever name you want, which
> wraps your blob or misnamed file, and which has a name of your
> choosing. When that file is submitted using FormData it'll use the
> name you've chosen.
>
>
Yes, my current concern is the missing extension.

With regards to the way to make it work, I just proposed some quick ideas,
but I'm in no way attached to anything. Anyone of you know far better how
this relates to other parts and the best way that it can be used for other
situations, I'm just a developer that only plays with whatever is available
in shipping code and then bangs his head against the wall when the goal is
so close but there's a little missing piece :-)

Thanks.


> / Jonas
>
>
> >
> >
> > El 29/06/2011 05:02, "Jonas Sicking" <jonas@sicking.cc> escribió:
> >> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
> wrote:
> >>> On Friday, June 17, 2011, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote:
> >>>> 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?
> >>>
> >>> That works for me. I'm curious to know why webkit went with a more
> >>> complex name though.
> >>
> >> I've written a patch to make Firefox use "blob" as name. This is used
> >> both when the FormData contains a Blob, and when it contains a File
> >> with an empty name.
> >>
> >> In firefox you can currently get a file with an empty name using an
> >> experimental canvas.mozGetAsFile(name, type, ...) API, though this
> >> will eventually be changed to canvas.toBlob as has now been specified.
> >> But I suspect we'll end up with other APIs eventually which can end up
> >> producing files with empty names (I kind'a think that BlobBuilder
> >> should have a getFile(name) function for example).
> >>
> >> / Jonas
> >>
> >
> >
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