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Started by Reinhard Doelz
Tue, 15 Feb 1994 07:40
FILE input to a WWW httpd, anyone?
Author: Reinhard Doelz
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 07:40
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 07:40
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A couple of weeks ago, there was a discussion on comp.infosystems.www whether file input is considered to be useful/needed in the POST type of forms submission. The thread died with the message that it were on the drawing board. [Q] I need to create a html file which requests file input from a client. I.e., the mosaic/lynx/whatever client should open a file browser on the local system and the selected file is to be transmitted as file to the server. [hack] cut-and-paste with freetext forms input has severe limitations and is difficult to achieve with (very) large input (talking > 1000 bytes here). [A] ? Has anyone tried at NCSA, CERN or elsewhere to implement this feature ? Biologists would very much appreciate this. Thanks for replies in advance! Regards Reinhard Doelz EMBnet Switzerland - +---------------------------+-------------------------------------------+ | Dr. Reinhard Doelz | Tel. x41 61 2672247 Fax x41 61 2672078 | | Biocomputing | electronic Mail doelz@urz.unibas.ch | |Biozentrum der Universitaet+-------------------------------------------+ | Klingelbergstrasse 70 | EMBnet embnet@comp.bioz.unibas.ch | |CH 4056 Basel SWITZERLAND | Switzerland gopher.embnet.unibas.ch | +---------------------------+------------- http://beta.embnet.unibas.ch/
Re: FILE input to a WWW httpd, anyone?
Author: Foteos Macrides
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 14:28
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 14:28
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In article <1994Feb15.074050.25372@comp.bioz.unibas.ch>, doelz@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Reinhard Doelz) writes: > > A couple of weeks ago, there was a discussion on comp.infosystems.www > whether file input is considered to be useful/needed in the POST type > of forms submission. The thread died with the message that it were on the > drawing board. > > [Q] > I need to create a html file which requests file input from a client. > I.e., the mosaic/lynx/whatever client should open a file browser on the > local system and the selected file is to be transmitted as file to the > server. > > [hack] > cut-and-paste with freetext forms input has severe limitations and is > difficult to achieve with (very) large input (talking > 1000 bytes here). > > [A] > ? Has anyone tried at NCSA, CERN or elsewhere to implement this feature ? > Biologists would very much appreciate this. Thanks for replies in advance! >[...] > This is being discussed in conjunction with Lynx development, and the consensus is that we need some kind of tag associated with forms which will transmit the file independently from the client's site to the server for integration into the form's function. It would be relatively easy to add a command in clients to import a user-specified file instead of keyboard input for form entries, but software using memory instead of disk-file caching could have problems with this (it would be only a matter of time before a novice user tried to import the entire GenBank database into the form 8-). Once this is worked out and implemented, biologists (and others for equivalent kinds of services) also need some standards for dealing with conversions of files. For example, one may need to convert GCG-format sequences to FastA-format if that's what the form function is expecting. Fote ========================================================================= Foteos Macrides Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology MACRIDES@SCI.WFEB.EDU 222 Maple Avenue, Shrewsbury, MA 01545 =========================================================================
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