59242 - file upload form post should use cont-disposition to convey time info

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 44464

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Adrian Havill]

Content-Disposition allows for the "modification-date" and "creation-date" to be
passed, to allow the host to be able to more faithfully recreate an uploaded
file (for example, a HTML FORM interface where FTP or HTTP PUT is not possible).

And by passing the size in the header, server side software can abort a POST
early if it knows the
file size is too large and saving the user from finding out near the end. There
is the total Content-Length, but this doesn't reflect the possible allowed size
of one file.

As for backwards compatibility and standards, naiive parsers that relied on a
fixed format may fail with this method, although with careful placement of the
date fields (after the fields present in Nav 4.x for parsers that do a simple
LEFT$() filter) the risk can be minimized. On the other hand, these server
scripts were bound to break with other browsers.

Comment 1

[Adrian Havill]

Attachment: adds "size", "creation-date", "modification-date" av to content-disposition

Comment 2

[rods (gone)]

reassigning

Comment 3

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

Setting milestone to mozilla0.9.1

Comment 4

[Vladimir Ermakov]

QA Contact Update

Comment 5

[Adrian Havill]

bug 44462 has a patch which does this, and is more generic to
solving/implementing the remaining multipart/form-data standards support.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 44462 ***

Comment 6

[Adrian Havill]

Shoot! Typo! This bug with the solution to this is bug 44464, not bug 4446_2_.

Comment 7

[Adrian Havill]

Sorry for the spam...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 44464 ***

Comment 8

[James Green]

Verified dup.