On 10/13/2017 8:39 AM, Patrick Monnerat via curl-library wrote:
> On 10/13/2017 12:55 PM, Sasikala Raju wrote:
>>
>> With curl 7.56 , multi form post have some discrepancy in sending the
>> data.  Why is the disposition header changed ? How can we force form
>> data instead of attachment.
>>
>> Private: 002e: Content-Disposition: form-data; name="filename"  -> 7.54
>>
>> Private: 069c: Content-Disposition: attachment; name="filename" ->7.56
>>
>
> If no special content disposition is set by the caller, libcurl sets
> it as "form-data" if the parent part has content type
> "multipart/form-data", else "attachment".
>
> You can force another content disposition by forging the full header
> yourself and setting it in the part, as it is done in
>
> https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/docs/examples/smtp-mime.c#L127.
> In that case, the field name and filename set for the part are ignored.
>
> I have no global view of what you are doing and of your mime
> structure: I can imagine you use the mime API and the context is not
> HTTP (probably SMTP or IMAP) or the part is a subpart of the parent
> part that has not a "multipart/form-data" content type. This later
> case is not standard.
>
> If you still use the form API, individual multiple file field parts
> always add a content disposition of "attachment" since the parent part
> (the one that represents your field) is not of content type
> "multipart/form-data".

Patrick just to be clear, you are saying that this is not a bug? I am
trying to figure out if it was broken before or after.

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