Mozilla has something similar already called sendAsBinary though it takes a string not an array https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XMLHttpRequest#sendAsBinary%28%29
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Anne van Kesteren <ann...@opera.com> wrote: > On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:12:52 +0200, Jian Li <jia...@chromium.org> wrote: > >> There has already been a discussion on extending XMLHttpRequest.send() to >> take a File object. Could we also consider enhancing it further to support >> sending multiple files, like a FileList from the drag and drop. >> >> We could make XMLHttpRequest.send() take a FileList object and let the >> browser add multipart boundary separators automatically. >> >> Or, the other simpler way, thanks to Darin's suggestion, is to >> extend XMLHttpRequest.send() to take an array of items. Each of item could >> be either a string or a file reference strictly. The web application is >> responsible to generate the multipart enevelop like the following: >> >> var payload = new Array; >> payload.push(header1); >> payload.push(file1); >> payload.push(footer1); >> ... >> xhr.send(payload); >> >> How do you guys think about these approaches? >> > > The first seems a lot less error-prone for authors. I think we should go > with that. > > > -- > Anne van Kesteren > http://annevankesteren.nl/ > >
