- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:24:16 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Mark Kaplun wrote: > > > > I've certainl written CGI scripts without libraries where the CGI > > script only supports one enctype. I doubt I'm alone in this. > > Ian, if posting was implemented my way (browser selects best encoding as > default) when you wrote the CGI, your work was harder, easier or no > change at all? Harder, at least in the scenario I described earlier -- I'd have written the code assuming the multipart enctype, tested it, found it working fine, and then if at the last minute I made the file upload control not be always present, it would have broken in ways that I wouldn't immediately have understood. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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