[8581] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: File upload from a Web browser
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Masinter)
Wed Jul 12 18:46:59 1995
To: hartill@lanl.gov
Cc: ppetit@wct.fr, www-talk@www10.w3.org
In-Reply-To: Rob Hartill's message of Wed, 12 Jul 1995 08:47:43 -0700 <199507121547.AA058364063@ooo.lanl.gov>
From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 15:22:18 PDT
Resent-From: www-talk@www10.w3.org
> Don't hold your breath waiting for the browser developers
> to implement a file upload option. It's trivial, but still a pipe
> dream for most service providers.
Don't hold your breath, use it. Browser implementors respond to
customer demand, not standards writers.
> If the popular browsers implemented this feature, it'd make feasible
> a huge number of projects which are currently mothballed.
> I believe there's a mature RFC out there somewhere for Netscape et al
> to follow.
There's an internet draft which should have gone to last call; it's
been stable for months.
