- From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 15:38:36 -0700 (PDT)
- To: hartill@lanl.gov
- Cc: ppetit@wct.fr, www-talk@www10.w3.org
On Wed, 12 Jul 1995, Rob Hartill wrote: > Patrick Petit <ppetit@wct.fr> wrote, > > > I am going through this list to get some advises on the > > following problem. > > > > I have to design an application where a client browsing a Web > > server could decide to upload a local file to that serveur for processing > > and get the result of that processing some time latter into another file. > > > This application must be performed using a Web browser interface. > > No assumption can be made about the availability or not of > > some other resources on the client side like ftp or mail. > > > > How would you resolve that problem ? > > Don't hold your breath waiting for the browser developers > to implement a file upload option. It's trivial, but still a pipe > dream for most service providers. > > If the popular browsers implemented this feature, it'd make feasible > a huge number of projects which are currently mothballed. > I believe there's a mature RFC out there somewhere for Netscape et al > to follow. http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/html/draft-ietf-html-fileupload-02.txt It has been implemented on both the client side in Mosaic and server-side in the NCSA httpd as patches available somewhere at Xerox (Larry?). We have applications for this TODAY. Are any browser developers listening? :) If this is a chicken-or-egg situation, we could put this on the short list for apache.... Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- brian@organic.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.[hyperreal,organic].com/
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