The Web server implements the multipart/form-data reading as well. Jay
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Neil Van Dyke <[email protected]> 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. > > -- > http://www.neilvandyke.org/ > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev > -- Jay McCarthy <[email protected]> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://teammccarthy.org/jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
