MultipartRequest File Upload parser / News: Recent posts

There are obviously a few things about the API which are just terrible. Some of this is due to the original requirement to support it as a CGI library as well as a servlet one.

If I were to release another version, I would remove the support for CGI and only provide a MultipartRequestServlet class.

I would remove all the deprecated methods.

I might also modify the code so that all configuration could be passed in with a properties file.... read more

The multipartrequest.jar was missing from the distribution. I have rereleased 1.30rc1 with the
file now.

Regret any inconvenience.

Regards
Jason

The File Upload Commons library has had its 1.0 version released on 24 Jun 2003

If you are looking for a well supported, well tested, and fully compliant library, I would recommend you consider the Apache Commons File Upload library, instead of this one.

I no longer actively develop the MultipartRequest library.

The Apache Jakarta offering appears to be well designed, and does NOT appear to require any
additional libraries from the Jakarta Commons collection.... read more

I have removed the CVS repository (or as much as I could work out how to remove) because it contained old code that was not being maitained.

The releases are always the latest code, as I no longer use the CVS services at this point.

Thanks
Jason

As part of the changes to MultipartRequest introduced for 1.30b1, the getFileSystemName(strName) method in combination with the specified uploadDirectory will NO longer point to the location of the uploaded file. This was NEVER the recommended way of doing this, as you should have always been using getFile(strName) to get a File reference to the uploaded file. If you have been doing that, then these changes will be transparent.... read more

Sorry, but I am still trying to work out how to get the SourceForge stuff all setup. Give me a few days and I will have the release files here. In the meantime check out http://www.freshmeat.net/projects/multipartrequest or http://www.geocities.com/jasonpell/programs.html#multipartrequest for current project related archives and information.