Either way, what I need is some way to pull out the bindings (with the attachment) from a cgi script in some form. Once I can do that, I'll be able to add the attachement field.
On Jun 29, Jay McCarthy wrote: > 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. -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
