On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 05:45 +0100, Roland Weber wrote: > Hello David, > > > I'm having problems figuring out how multipart/form-data entities > > are implemented in components 4.0. > > They're not. > > > Because UrlEncodedFormEntity exists, I expected an analogue of > > MultipartRequestEntity from 3.x. > > We need URL encoding for query strings anyway, so it's not a big > deal to use it in an entity. Formatting multipart entities is a > much more complex beast. > > > If it hasn't been implemented yet, is it on the road map? > > Not really. For our core activity "HTTP", multipart is somewhat > out of scope. We'd love to use multipart code maintained by some > other project for which it is in scope, but I'm not aware of any. > We tried to move the multipart code to commons-codec a few years > ago, but I didn't take off there. Oleg recently mentioned another > project that has multipart parsing code and might be interested > in our multipart formatting code. I don't know the current status > on that.
The project is Apache mime4j http://james.apache.org/mime4j/index.html I am not sure, though, they want to expand the scope of the library to include MIME formatting code. They did not seem to sound too enthusiastic when I suggested we might contribute the multipart encoder from HttpClient. Oleg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
