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Re: atompub-multipart-01: browser implementation



On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 8:56 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).

Doesn't this mean that the same is true for posting media files to an
AtomPub collection
in a browser?

> Short version: I think this draft can't be implemented in a browser [1].

True, but has working in a browser ever been a self-imposed constraint
of AtomPub?

  -joe

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Joe Gregorio http://bitworking.org