Bug 14667 – Discussion: form,filename, what to do about encoding of filename part with nonascii-chars

• Status: NEW
• Component: Forms

#Original title: "Discussion: form,filename, what to do about encoding of filename part"
#Please retitle me

derived from bug#14635

Origin is: With this site(webkit-buglizza), I coudn't upload file from my Desktop.
After moving file to somewhere like c:\__sendtemp\, uploading succeeded.
Why-full-path-is-post issue is left to bug#14635.

"While "most experienced users know about the perils of non-ASCII file names,"
therefore many beginners who starts web with  Safari/WebKit, who had not have a bitter.
What we shoud do about encoding of filename part?

Please read bug#14635, with some recommended-reading RFCs.


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POST http://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ja) AppleWebKit/522.14.1+
(KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.2 Safari/522.13.1
Content-Type: multipart/form-data;
boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryAAsdAAJVAApEAA5j
Transfer-Encoding: Chunked
.....

------WebKitFormBoundaryAAsdAAJVAApEAA5j
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="data"; filename="C:\Documents and
Settings\*****\繝・せ繧ｯ繝医ャ繝予test.html.png"
Content-Type: image/png


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; response
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HTTP/1.1 411 Length Required
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Darwin) PHP/4.4.1 mod_ssl/2.8.24 OpenSSL/0.9.7i
DAV/1.0.3
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

[Robert Blaut]

P5 is not used for WebKit bugs. [http://webkit.org/quality/bugpriorities.html]

[Danny Sadinoff]

This bug is an open wound. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this bug is what's causing my utf-8 filenames to arrive as ? characters in the content-disposition field.  

Just about any solution, either the standard MIME-mandated Encoded-Word solution or Firefix/IE's html-encoding solution would be better than the dataloss that webkit currently indulges in.

Who decides how to proceed?  If we can get a decision, an implementation won't take long at all.