Re: lynx-dev Re: ObDisgustingHackery / 8bit clean

[dickey]

> In message <address@hidden>,  
>            address@hidden writes: 
> >  
> > well - we'll see how it looks when you're done.  I'll have a portion of 
> > your 
> > recent patch in dev.2 (some errors corrected, some unused code dropped). 
>  
> Too late, I just rewrote the patch to use a different method 
> entirely.  Sorry.  Now it uploads binary files just fine (for 
> various values of 'fine' I'm not entirely convinced of yet.) 

well, I'll pick it up for dev.3 (I'm just waiting for dev.2 to finish building,
since sol.slcc.edu is rather slow today).
  
> I've tested it against CGI.pm's file upload code, and that works 
> fine so far.  It needs testing by a wider audience.  I'll clean up 
> the code as best I can, add some comments for Klaus, and then stick 
> it up on http://lynx.browser.org/rp/ -- it'll be version 0.2. 

ok (tell us when)
  
> It's not pretty though, and I'm pretty sure I'm violating the spec 
> somewhere, but I can't see where.  Hopefully the "many eyes of 
> open source" will point it out. 

the fellow who you're quoting used to send me patches where he basically
expected me to fix all the bugs (let's not do that ;-)

> --  
> rob partington / address@hidden 


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