- From: Petr Tomasek <tomasek@etf.cuni.cz>
- Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 20:36:07 +0100
- To: Arnaud Quillaud <Arnaud.Quillaud@Sun.COM>
- Cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
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. -- Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek> Jabber: butrus@jabbim.cz SIP: butrus@ekiga.net
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