IPhone ajex multipart boundary charset

 

Prototype messes up the multipart Boundary

Original article: https://prototype.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8886/tickets/498-prototype-messes-up-the-multipart-boundary

 

Reported by Gabriel aubut-Lussier | December 19th, 2008 @ pm

When preparing a multipart/form-data post

The Ajax. Request class, prototype messes up the boundary by appending '; charset = 'whatever the charset is set to (defaults to UTF-8). See example 1.

In order to fix this, one has to manually set the charset inside the Content-Type and then disable the charset. See example 2.

Example 1 (doesn' t work ):

new Ajax.Request("http://myTestSite.com/test.php", {    method: 'post',    contentType: 'multipart/form-data; boundary=AaB03x',    postBody: '--AaB03x/r/nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=/"test/"/r/n/r/ntest/r/n--AaB03x--/r/n',    onSuccess: function(transport) {        alert(transport.responseText);    },    onFailure: function(transport) {        alert('failure');    }});

Example 2 (Works ):

new Ajax.Request("http://myTestSite.com/test.php", {    method: 'post',    contentType: 'multipart/form-data; charset=UTF-8; boundary=AaB03x',    encoding: '',    postBody: '--AaB03x/r/nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=/"test/"/r/n/r/ntest/r/n--AaB03x--/r/n',    onSuccess: function(transport) {        alert(transport.responseText);    },    onFailure: function(transport) {        alert('failure');    }});

Here is the test. php script:

<? PHP foreach ($ _ post as $ key => $ Val ){

echo $key . ": " . $val . "<BR />";

}?>