[Bese-devel] Content-Type for uploaded files?

[Marco Baringer]

"Marco Baringer" <mb at bese.it> writes:

> ocorrain at yahoo.com (Tiarnán Ó Corráin) writes:
>
>> Hi--
>>
>> how can I get the content-type of uploaded files? I have taken code
>> from the example application, viz.:
>
> eventually i did in fact need this. what i ended up doing (which is,
> currently, Just Wrong) is this:
>
> when the post data's type is "multipart/form-data" the parameters,
> which are still bonud by name, are not strings but mime-part objects,
> these objects are just a pair of headers (assoc list) and the body (a
> string). the problem with this solution is that entry points and
> callbacks need to know whether the incoming data is
> multipart/form-data or regular url-encoded. (you'll notice that the
> "s", "f" and "a" parameters are special cased since various parts of
> the rerl assume they're strings). what i'll do, eventually, is put the
> body of the form-data in the request parameters and provide a function
> MIME-PART-DATA (or something) which, given the name of a parametetr,
> returns all the various mime headers.
>
> at least that's what i'll do if no one comes up with a better solution
> (hint hint hint).

p.s. - this is currently only implemented for the mod_lisp backend.

-- 
-Marco
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