>but I'd be very surprised (read: eyes wide and mouth agape in
>utter disbelief) if they didn't have plenty of support for
>multipart/form-data.

Me too. I was really trying to point out that sometimes it's just as important to consider cross-platform implementation issues as support in the particular environment that one is currently working.

>So, it seems to me that the bottom line is that, even
>though you took a circuitous route there, you found the
>right way to be doing things.

Probably, except that the point of departure on my circuitous route was determined by a spec. that required use of urlencoded forms, so the moral of the story may be "if I wanted to get there, I wouldn't start from here".

Steve Collyer

In reply to Re^2: UTF-8, CGI.pm and LWP: some observations by scollyer
in thread UTF-8, CGI.pm and LWP: some observations by scollyer

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