> Other alternatives? I believe Safari will zip a folder and send it as a single file for you if you attach a folder to a file upload element instead of an individual file.
Dave ________________________________ From: John Gregg <[email protected]> To: Sam Weinig <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Tue, June 1, 2010 3:09:00 PM Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Directory upload experimental feature My proposal for that is that all the files would be listed in the form submission the same way as if it were a <input type="file" multiple>, but in the Content-Disposition header, the filename component would contain the path information. One alternative idea would be add a "path" component to the Content-Disposition header alongside the filename which remains unchanged, but I think that would be a much more difficult approach. Other alternatives? Example follows. -John If you are have these files /home/John/photos/vacation/1.jpeg /home/John/photos/vacation/2.jpeg /home/John/photos/conference/1.jpeg and choose "photos" from the directory picker, you'd end up with input.files[0].name = "1.jpeg" input.files[0].path = "photos/vacation/1.jpeg" input.files[1].name = "2.jpeg" input.files[1].path = "photos/vacation/2.jpeg" input.files[2].name = "1.jpeg" input.files[2].path = "photos/conference/1.jpeg" Your POST would look like Content-type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryFoo ----WebKitFormBoundaryFoo Content-Disposition: form-data; name="input"; filename="photos/vacation/1.jpeg" Content-Type: image/jpeg <contents> ----WebKitFormBoundaryFoo Content-Disposition: form-data; name="input"; filename="photos/vacation/2.jpeg" Content-Type: image/jpeg <contents> ----WebKitFormBoundaryFoo Content-Disposition: form-data; name="input"; filename="photos/conference/1.jpeg" Content-Type: image/jpeg <contents> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Sam Weinig <[email protected]> wrote: How will the directory structure and all the files therein be represented in the form submission? > > >-Sam > > >On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:17 PM, John Gregg <[email protected]> wrote: > >Hi WebKit, >> >> >>I recently proposed adding directory upload support to HTML via a new <input> >>attribute to whatwg@, and the discussion arrived at "try it out". Having >>written some code I think I have something that works pretty well, and I'd >>like to land it on an experimental basis in WebKit, but want to reach out >>early before trying to put any code in the tree. The plan that comes to mind >>is a new ENABLE_DIRECTORY_UPLOAD flag, but I'm completely open to other >>options. >> >> >>Background (cf. the whatwg thread >>http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2010-April/025764.html): >> - The use case for this is a photo album or file manager web application, >> which wants the user to easily choose an entire directory to recursively >> upload, while preserving the sub-directory structure. >> - The reason for the new attribute is to signal the UA to show a native >> folder-picker rather than a file-picker, which on most OSs are two distinct >> dialogs. >> >>The approach I'm using has 2 parts and is a small amount of WebCore code >>(about 200 lines). >> - Extend HTMLInputElement to support the directory attribute, which is >> passed up via FileChooser allowing the UA to display a folder-picker. UA >> enumerates all the files and returns them in the normal way. >> - Extend File to have a File.path property, which contains the path >> information starting from the chosen directory as the root. >> HTMLInputElement is responsible for generating these values from the list of >> files when the directory attribute is set. >> >> >>Thoughts? >> >> >>Thanks, >> -John >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>>>webkit-dev mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev >> >> >
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