Monday, November 08, 2010 at 12:05 AM.

system.verbs.builtins.radio.webServer.parseMultipart

on parseMultipart (pta) {
	<<Change Notes
		<<1/17/99; 1:39:20 PM by DW
			<<Thanks to Kurt Egger for prodding me to do this code, and to Jeff Willden for a great example to work with. I rewrote the code to make better use of Frontier, to perform better and have a flatter interface for the application. 
			<<Our goal is to fill the postArgs table with info from the request
		<<12/02/1999; 5:18:51 PM by AR
			<<Disabled debugging code: No longer write to scratchpad.headers.
	local (boundaryString);
	bundle { //get the boundary string that separates each form element
		local (s = pta^.requestHeaders.["Content-Type"]);
		<<multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------7cf1873b3e070a
		boundaryString = string.popLeading (string.nthField (s, '=', 2), '-')};
	
	local (body);
	bundle { //initialize body, pop off leading dashes followed by boundary string
		body = string (pta^.requestBody);
		body = string.popLeading (body, '-');
		body = string.delete (body, 1, sizeof (boundaryString))};
	
	local (adrtable = @pta^.radioResponder.postArgs);
	new (tabletype, adrtable); //fill this table with info from the request
	
	loop { //get each form element, delimited by the boundary string
		local (ix = string.patternMatch (boundaryString, body));
		if ix == 0 { //no more encoded elements
			break};
		local (s = string.popTrailing (string.mid (body, 1, ix - 1), '-'));
		bundle { //digest the element
			local (headers, elementBody, contentDisposition, argName);
			if not (s beginswith "\r\n") {
				s = "\r\n" + s};
			elementBody = string.httpResultSplit (s, @headers);
			if elementBody endswith "\r\n" {
				elementBody = string.delete (elementBody, sizeof (elementBody) - 1, 2)};
			headers.data = elementBody;
			contentDisposition = headers.["Content-Disposition"];
			delete (@headers.["Content-Disposition"]);
			<<name="file"; filename="D:\frontierStartupCommands.txt"
			loop {
				s = string.nthField (contentDisposition, ';', 1);
				if s == "" {
					break};
				contentDisposition = string.delete (contentDisposition, 1, sizeof (s) + 1);
				if s contains '=' {
					local (name = string.trimWhitespace (string.urlDecode (string.nthField (s, '=', 1))));
					local (value = string.trimWhitespace (string.urlDecode (string.nthField (s, '=', 2))));
					value = string.mid (value, 2, sizeof (value) - 2); //pop off enclosing double-quotes
					if string.lower (name) == "name" {
						argName = value}
					else {
						headers.[name] = value}}};
			<<scratchpad.headers = headers
			if sizeof (headers) == 1 {
				adrtable^.[argName] = elementBody}
			else {
				adrtable^.[argName] = headers}};
		body = string.delete (body, 1, ix + sizeof (boundaryString));
		body = string.popLeading (body, '\n')}}
<<bundle //test code
	<<parseMultipart (@scratchpad.multipartparamtable)



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