Re: LYNX-DEV http://lynx.browser.org/

[Tom Zerucha]

On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Klaus Weide wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, guest login (presumably aka address@hidden) wrote:
> 
> > Question, how come one cannot upload using the Lynx browser in a FTP site?
> 
> I guess because nobody has written the code for it...

Nor any URL specification, at least to my knowledge.

> And then, how would one specify source file and destination?  It doesn't
> seem to fit in the general Lynx user interface too well.

Destination would be in the url, e.g.
ftpupload://host.name/pub/incoming/test.tar.gz
and lynx would prompt your for a file spec as it does for download.

> Having the HTTP 'PUT' method supported for uploads would also be nice.
> But then, many things would be nice to have...

Actually POST works, more or less.  I have a CLI microbrowser/microserver
pair that I use POST to upload files, but I don't translate characters.
Lynx has a way of posting formdata from a file, at least from the command
line.

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