[Email-SIG] FeedParser: Incremental Payload Reporting

[Clark C. Evans]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 03:58:58PM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:
| > couldn't the Message class be
| > extended to have an "write_payload()" method instead?
| 
| Yep, and there have been some discussions about this, so check the
| archives.  It's what I meant when I talked about 'external storage API'
| in the list of possible sprint topics.

Fantastic... I can hardly wait!

| > I'm also confused at push() in lines 96 to 110.  How does this work
| > with a binary payload?  
| 
| It doesn't, but that's not a use case the FeedParser really needs to
| worry about.  Email is always line-oriented text, and binary messages
| are encoded into stuff like base64 so we can cheat this way.

I'd like to use the FeedParser for use parsing multipart/form-data
from a HTTP POST, and in this case the most common file content is
binary and the encoding is... none.  Could this be added to the
wish-list?  It'd also allow cgi.py to be refactored nicely.

Clark
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