[racket-dev] comment boxes

The Web server implements the multipart/form-data reading as well.

Jay

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Neil Van Dyke <neil at neilvandyke.org> wrote:
> 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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