[fpc-pascal] Premature end of headers using fcl-web and POST

Ludo Brands ludo.brands at free.fr
Tue Nov 1 09:04:42 CET 2011


> >> So it seems that you MUST set the contenttype either to 
> >> MULTIPART/FORM-DATA or APPLICATION/X-WWW-FORM-URLENCODED.
> >
> > Yes, this is as per the HTML specs.
> 
> They actually prohibit sending arbitrary data? oh, boy, these 
> people like rules and inneficiency =D But there must be 
> something missing here, because file upload is possible, and 
> there you send arbitrary data.
> 

Note the "per the HTML specs". HTTP specs aren't that strict. 

> HTTP per se should pose no 
> restrictions to what I am sending via POST.
> 

It doesn't. Application/octet-stream is a common MIME used to send binary
data.

Ludo





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