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Re: File upload in HTML forms

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel W. Connolly)
Sat Oct 8 01:41:22 1994

Date: Sat, 8 Oct 1994 06:38:21 +0100
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In message <" 7-Oct-94 21:11:26 PDT".*.Ernesto_Nebel.SD@Xerox.com>, Ernesto_Neb
el.SD@xerox.com writes:
>I
>hope it'll be possible to see a TYPE "file" added to the HTML INPUT tag and to
>have browser support for this new type as soon as possible.  (No changes to
>HTTP required).

Oops... I found a copy of the proposal. I see there are no HTTP
changes after all -- security concerns are addressed by having
the user interactively confirm the file upload.

By the way... how do the users of the modified browsers like the
feature?

Dan

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