[OGo-Developer] multipart/form-data and text encoding

[Helge Hess]

On 23.08.2007, at 00:09, Wolfgang Sourdeau wrote:
> I think there was mention of modifying the parsers instead

I have not found the time to look at the changes yet, but changing  
default encodings for decoding from ASCII to UTF-8 should almost  
always make sense (since every ASCII char is a valid UTF-8 char).

Anyways, the more important thing is that we should not work on  
NGHttpRequest and the NGMime based HTTP parser! Quite a while ago I  
started that "SimpleHTTPParser" which can be enabled using the  
"WOHttpTransactionUseSimpleParser" default. (and in fact its much  
more reliable and efficient for WebDAV usage!, so its recommended for  
ZideStore/xmlrpcd)

The NGMime stuff is *quite* complex (and I'm relunctant to change a  
lot there, because it works quite well for b0rked messages). This is  
necessary for mail, but completely unnecessary for HTTP which is  
rather clean and well implemented in 'da real world.

There is only one issue which is why the SimpleParser is not enabled  
by default: it doesn't implement multipart/formdata=>WORequest  
decoding (which is not that hard, but some work).

So IMHO the proper thing would be to finish the SimpleParser instead  
of tweaking NGMime. If you would want to do this, it would be a  
welcome and useful addition to SOPE.

Helge

PS: I'll have a look at the patch later this week.
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Helge Hess
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