[adding mediawiki-api since this seems to be more relevant to that list] "Bryan Tong Minh" <bryan.tongm...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Russell Blau <russb...@hotmail.com> wrote: >>> --abc >>> Content-Disposition: form-data; name="%s"; filename="%s" >>> Content-Type: application/octet-stream >>> >> What is the second "%s" in the above line? Is this instead of having a >> separate form-data element with name="filename", or is it a duplicate of >> that element, or is it something entirely different? >> >name is the name of the form element (wpUploadFile) and filename the >name of the file (picture.jpg) > >> If RFC 2388 says that the sending application MAY supply a file name, why >> is >> the API treating this as a REQUIRED parameter? >It is not, as far as I can see. It is requiring the form element >"filename" and ignoring the filename attribute from the file all >together.
So, basically, the API for action=upload is (a) not compliant with RFC 2388, and (b) failing with a misleading error message when the client fails to supply a parameter that isn't used at all? Russ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
