[webkit-dev] Support sending multiple files via XMLHttpRequest.send()

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On Sep 8, 2009, at 6:16 PM, Jian Li wrote:

> In WebKit, XMLHttpRequest.send() supports sending single file. It  
> would be better if we can support sending multiple files, like  
> FileList (see bug 25923).
>
> In addition, XMLHttpRequest.send() only sends the raw content of the  
> file, without including the multipart boundary separators (see bug  
> 26979).
>
> To resolve these issues, we can enhance XMLHttpRequest.send() to  
> support a FileList object and add multipart boundary separators  
> support.
>
> 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:
>
>     var payload = new Array;
>     payload.push(header1);
>     payload.push(file1);
>     payload.push(footer1);
>     ...
>     xhr.send(payload);
>
> How do you guys think about these approaches?

I'd suggest proposing these ideas to the W3C Web Apps Working Group. I  
am sure people there will have opinions. I'd like our approach here to  
be aligned with other browsers.

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.

Regards,
Maciej

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