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Re: atompub-multipart-01: browser implementation



On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Bill de hOra <bill@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gregorio-atompub-multipart-01.txt
>
> When doing multipart, browsers/AJAX can't load files from the file system.
> As a result XHR objects generally can't submit non-text content. The
> standard (only?) workaround for this is a hack that allows a form post to be
> sent via a hidden iframe. At that point there's no way to set headers and
> the client is limited to application/x-www-form-urlencoded or
> multipart/form-data (due to HTML forms).
>
> Short version: I think this draft can't be implemented in a browser [1].
>
> Bill
>
> [1]
> http://www.dehora.net/journal/2008/06/18/atompub-multipart-media-creation-draft-01/#comments
>
>

Can't the same stuff be submitted as a multipart form?  I think this
feature is one that is important to a lot of potential adopters, and I
think a lot of its use cases don't involve a browser browser at all.
Would it not suffice to make some allowance for mime-type for the
multipart submission so that it's usable in HTML forms?