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Re: lynx-dev A couple comments/questions on Lynx's File Upload handling


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: lynx-dev A couple comments/questions on Lynx's File Upload handling
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 07:04:43 -0400
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On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 03:18:36AM -0400, [simoN] wrote:
> 
> so... i have watched the slow evolution of the "Experimental
>   File Upload" handling in Lynx... and while i have mostly stuck
>   to the "release" versions of Lynx... my curiosity on whether
>   it would work better for me took over and i checked out 2.8.5dev9...
> 
> well... i noticed that the patch added some time ago for text
>   files DOES work... (even though they... like all other uploaded
>   files with Lynx... don't seem to inform the server very well
>   about the Content-Type of the file)...
> but the binary files still seem to give problems...
>   in that... either most servers don't recognize Lynx's

that's the point - finding useful servers for testing which have some
sort of free upload.

>   base64 MIME-encoded files... OR they would recognize them
>   but Lynx doesn't tell them specifically enough what they are...
>   as the resulting upload is always base64 MIME-encoded text...
>   instead of the original file...
> 
> and me... i just wondered if anyone else was interested
>   in this... or knows how to make it work...
> 
> toodles for now...
> 
> [simoN]
> 
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