218620 - multipart/data form submition does not work

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[pierre]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr-FR; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr-FR; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

i developped an html page with an upload form : 

<form name="analyseForm" action="analyseSubmit.m" method="post"
enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="file" name="file"/>
<input type="submit" value="upload"/>
</form>

i use Tomcat 4.18 and java servlet to upload the file. But will it works fine
with other browsers (IE6, Opera7), i get a null ContentType and a -1
ContentLength with Mozilla.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. make an html page with multipart/data form.
2. make a java servlet that get the request's ContentType and ContentLength and
display it somwhere.
3. submit form with a file selected.

Actual Results:  
contentType : null
content length : -1

Expected Results:  
contentType : multipart/form-data; boundary=----------XjK9j69HyCI1Owh2ui8rRx
content length : 30406

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Could you please post a testcase somewhere?  We do send those two headers in our
multipart form submissions....

Also, is this a problem with a 1.5b build?

Comment 2

[pierre]

I tested this with Mozilla 4.1 and 5.2b that give me the same bug. Everything 
goes fine with Netscape, IE and Opera.
I use Tomcat 4.1.18 to deploy my servlet.

No need to send a testcase because it is so simple. Here is the the doPost() 
method of my servlet that is executed on form submission :

doPost(req HttpServletRequest, res HttpServletResponse) {
System.out.print("contentType : ");
System.out.println("" + req.getContentType);
System.out.print("content length : ");
System.out.println("" + req.getContentLength);
}

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

If you post a testcase, I can compare what Mozilla sends on the wire to what
your servlet reports.  That way it will be clear whether there is a Mozilla bug
(not sending the data) or a servlet bug (not parsing the data correctly).

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Dupe of bug 7973?

Comment 5

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