[racket-dev] comment boxes

Eli Barzilay wrote at 06/29/2010 04:46 PM:
> 2. Gnats *does* know how to deal with attachements.  The problem is
>    that our cgi library cannot handle a multipart/form-data encoding.
>    (If you convince the author to add support for that, I'll do the
>    rest and add a file attachement option to the web form, and
>    changing drracket to send a file is probably easy too.)

I implemented "multipart/form-data" reading a couple years ago as part 
of robust CGI support for a proprietary application.

As I recall, the HTTP "post" MIME-reading code is only a little bit 
application-specific.  (It writes file attachments directly to disk, and 
adds metadata about the attachments to the form field alist in a certain 
application-specific (constraining) way.  It might also do some stuff 
with character encodings that are not strictly backwards-compatible with 
Racket's "cgi" library.)

If anyone has time and interest in adapting this HTTP "post" 
MIME-reading code to improve core Racket, I suspect that the copyright 
owner would be willing and able to contribute it.

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