z3c.form: Default form content type
Hi, By default z3c.form sets the form content type to 'multipart/form-data' (the default value of IInputForm['enctype']). According to http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.4 this MIME type "should be used for submitting forms that contain files, non-ASCII data, and binary data." Shouldn't the default value rather be set to the default content type of HTML forms, i.e. 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'? Regards, Markus Kemmerling
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 15:54, Markus Kemmerling <markus.kemmerling@meduniwien.ac.at> wrote:
By default z3c.form sets the form content type to 'multipart/form-data' (the default value of IInputForm['enctype']). According to http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.4 this MIME type "should be used for submitting forms that contain files, non-ASCII data, and binary data." Shouldn't the default value rather be set to the default content type of HTML forms, i.e. 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'?
The majority of forms use Unicode widgets, so this falls under the heading of non-ASCII data. Also, it'd be almost impossible to auto-detect when binary data will be handled by the form, unless you start introspecting widget output, so the default looks entirely sane to me. -- Martijn Pieters
Hello, On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:38:34 +0200 Martijn Pieters <mj@zopatista.com> wrote:
The majority of forms use Unicode widgets, so this falls under the heading of non-ASCII data. Also, it'd be almost impossible to auto-detect when binary data will be handled by the form, unless you start introspecting widget output, so the default looks entirely sane to me.
Or if you have a descent schema system that include this information. Regards, Sylvain, -- Sylvain Viollon -- Infrae t +31 10 243 7051 -- http://infrae.com Hoevestraat 10 3033GC Rotterdam -- The Netherlands
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Sylvain Viollon <sylvain@infrae.com> wrote:
Or if you have a descent schema system that include this information.
No, this really has to do with the widgets. A widget may well use Unicode data regardless of the expected result type. And most interesting schema leave a lot to be handled by widgets (think about selections from database-hosted sources, where the form values may be unicode but the selected values are objects). Multipart forms make more sense as a default. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> "Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities." --Frank Lloyd Wright
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