HTML5 FormData

Emulate FormData object for browsers wich support FileAPI interface.

formdata.js doesn't overload original FormData object in browser like Safari 5.0+, Firefox 4.0+ or Chrome 6.0+.

About FormData

FormData objects provide a way to easily construct a set of key/value pairs representing form fields and their values, which can then be easily sent using the XMLHttpRequest send() method.

developer.mozilla.org/en/XMLHttpRequest/FormData

How to use it ?

Include formdata.js:

<script type="text/javascript" src="formdata.js"></script>

And use xmlhttprequest with some bad adjustments.

var data = new FormData();
data.append('file', document.getElementById('file').files[0]);

xhr.open('POST', '/', true);
xhr.setRequestHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache");
xhr.setRequestHeader("X-Requested-With", "XMLHttpRequest");
// this is really bad
if (data.fake) {
   xhr.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "multipart/form-data; boundary="+ data.boundary);
   xhr.sendAsBinary(data.toString());
} else {
   xhr.send(data);
}

With jquery.form.js

jquery.form.js have been patched and can use fake FormData. See github.com/AF83/form.

Tests

Point your favorite web browser in tests.html.

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2010 François de Metz

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