Re: LYNX-DEV Is that misfeature still on?

[Kari E. Hurtta]

David Woolley:
> > 
> > 
> > Is that misfeature (was it introduced in 2.7.1)
> > which disables whole form if there somewhere used 
> > FILE -input?
> 
> I think there is a risk that a web server that uses FILE may not be
> able to cope with a x-www-urlencoded response, even though the HTML
> rules say you can ignore things you don't understand (I'm not sure if
> the encoding was in the original forms spec and therefore presumed
> understood, but not necessarily implemented by all forms implementations).
> 
> Basically, the problem with files is that they imply MIME multipart 
> responses, not URL encoded ones.

Yes. Actually in that from was not TYPE=FILE input at all.
It was just ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data"

See: http://www.tjgroup.com/tjweb.nsf/jobapplication?OpenForm

(I just got info which what that page.)

/ Kari Hurtta