- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:30:51 +0100
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
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. It could. However I'm not entirely happe with special casing a single mime type. An alternative would be to define a *second* URI that would accept POST requests from HTML forms. > Modifying a resource by uploading it again would still not be possible > of course but that can be somehow workarounded. Orthogonal problem... Best regards, Julian -- DSL-Preisknaller: DSL Komplettpakete schon für 16,99 Euro mtl.!* http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl02
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