Agreed.  This seems like a great thread for public-webapps.<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mjs@apple.com">mjs@apple.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><div><div>On Sep 8, 2009, at 6:16 PM, Jian Li wrote:</div>

<br><blockquote type="cite">In WebKit, XMLHttpRequest.send() supports sending single file. It would be better if we can support sending multiple files, like FileList (see <a href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25923" target="_blank">bug 25923</a>).<div>

<br> </div><div>In addition, XMLHttpRequest.send() only sends the raw content of the file, without including the multipart boundary separators (see <a href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26979" target="_blank">bug 26979</a>).</div>

<div> <br></div><div>To resolve these issues, we can enhance XMLHttpRequest.send() to support a FileList object and add multipart boundary separators support.</div><div><br></div><div>Or, the other simpler way (thanks for suggestion from Darin Fisher) is to extend XMLHttpRequest.send() to take an array of items. Each of item could either be a string or a file reference. The web application is responsible to generate the miultipart enevelop like the following:</div>

 <div><br></div><div><div>    var payload = new Array;</div><div>    payload.push(header1);</div><div>    payload.push(file1);</div><div>    payload.push(footer1);</div><div>    ...</div><div>    xhr.send(payload);</div>
<div>
 <br></div><div>How do you guys think about these approaches?</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div><div>I&#39;d suggest proposing these ideas to the W3C Web Apps Working Group. I am sure people there will have opinions. I&#39;d like our approach here to be aligned with other browsers.</div>

<div><br></div><div>Personally, I think the ability to mix strings and files is most useful, thus I like the array approach. However, it would require defining what happens to array elements that are not either a string or a File object.</div>

<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Maciej</div><font color="#888888"><div><br></div></font></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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