Re: request for new forms submission consensus

Tony Sanders (sanders@bsdi.com)
Mon, 11 Oct 1993 13:27:49 -0500

[on forms submission]
> too long from now one of those forms will be "type=audio" :), and when
Very good point. I second the vote to use MIME encodings. However, this
doesn't preclude using the encoding we have now under POST with a simple
MIME header. Then we can easily move to more complex forms like
multipart/mixed (example below).

A simple form example:
POST /hyplan/sanders.html HTTP/1.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: application/x-www-textform

name=test&address=data

A complex example (with an audio part):
POST /hyplan/sanders.html HTTP/1.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="unique string"

--unique string
Content-Type: application/x-www-textform

name=test&address=data
--unique string
Content-Type: audio/basic
Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64

SDFLKjfllkjLKJhJHhjGjHGjHSJfhLSKDJFHjsdhfkJSDHFKSJH
--unique string--

--sanders