Support multipart/form-data requests

[dschulten]

It would be useful if one could parse multipart requests. There is commons-fileupload but it depends on the servlet-api.

certainly this is not a simple task, caveat https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2422468/how-to-upload-files-to-server-using-jsp-servlet

see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7578

[renatoathaydes]

Hi @dschulten. I agree this functionality is necessary for any proper HTTP server to do the minimum job expected from it... but when I started writing RawHTTP my idea was to cover as much as possible of RFC-7230 in the rawhttp-core module, and then write a new module called rawhttp-semantics (or something like rawhttp-rest) adding things like the "official" HTTP methods, parsing of known HTTP headers, cookies, and other HTTP extensions like file upload. This task, however, is a little too much for me to do by myself, unfortunately...

I think the ideal way to go about this is to add a few little things, like file-upload, into a new module, then slowly expand it to cover all of the things people come to expect from HTTP server/clients. But I cannot promise anything as I have other interests in life besides HTTP :) so help with implementation of features like this would be highly appreciated.