[whatwg] multipart/form-data filename encoding: unicode and special characters

[Julian Reschke]

On 2012-07-09 23:01, Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Thu, 3 May 2012, Evan Jones wrote:
>> On May 3, 2012, at 17:09 , Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes. I think we should define multipart/form-data directly in HTML and
>>> thereby obsolete http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2388 as it is outdated
>>> and not maintained.
>>
>> Right; that would be ideal. Despite the fact that HTML5 references that
>> RFC, browsers don't really follow it.
>>
>> I would be interested in trying to help with this, but again I would
>> certainly need some guidance from people who know more about the
>> vagaries of how the various browsers encode their form parameters /
>> uploaded file names, and why things got that way. It probably would not
>> be helpful for me to try to draft an update to the spec without getting
>> the right implementers on board.
>
> If this is still something for which you have some time available, then
> the starting point for anything like this would be test cases, lots and
> lots of test cases. In this case, it would have to be something like a
> server that echoes the precise bytes sent by the client, for a huge
> variety of different setups:
>
>   - various submission encodings
>   - various form field names and types
>   - various file submission filenames
>
> ...etc.
>
> I'd be happy to advise if this is something that still interests you.

I agree with the methodology. However I would suggest to simply revise 
RFC 2388.

Best regards, Julian