Re: multipart/form-data formatted requests

Hi Daniel,

The latest MultipartRequest class should support
Content-Transfer-Encoding.  What exact problem are you seeing?  If you
could send me code that duplicates the problem I'll make sure it gets
fixed quickly.

-jh-

> Daniel Walsh wrote:
>
> I'm not sure that I'm posting this question to the correct list.  I
> ran a search on O'Reilly's MultipartRequest class, and it pointed me
> to servlets.com.  So, when I entered the Mailing Lists link, I was
> pointed here.  If this question is not best suited for this list,
> please let me know and I'll redirect it.  In that case, if anyone
> knows where this would be best posted, I'd appreciate the heads up.
>
> I recently wrote a test program using Apache's HttpClient and
> O'Reilly's MultipartRequest, to upload a file using a multipart
> request format.  This worked fine when using an older version of
> HttpClient, however recently they made a few changes to better conform
> to some of the smaller details of the multipart/form-data
> specification (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2388.txt); namely, they now
> include 'Content-Type' and 'Content-Transfer-Encoding' headers for
> each part.
>
> Since these modifications I receive exceptions when trying to run my
> program.  I've taken a look at the RFC for multipart/form-data and it
> would seem that Apache implemented these changes in compliance with
> the specification.  I see in the javadoc that MultipartRequest used
> RFC 1867 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1867.txt) for the class, however,
> I guess my question is: does O'Reilly's MultipartRequest not accept
> multipart request which fully adhere to RFC 2388?  Was I possible
> using an older version of it, while I might not run into these
> problems with a newer one?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Daniel

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