bug#20469: mm-url-encode-multipart-form-data: allow for text/plain and application/octet-stream parts

[Ivan Shmakov]

Package:  emacs
Severity: wishlist

        As it seems, mm-url-encode-multipart-form-data currently
        (1c7f0cdc4c1f, 2015-04-27 16:59:11 +00:00) supports only parts
        encoded via mm-url-form-encode-xwfu – even though RFC 1867
        clearly shows that text/plain and application/octet-stream are
        also valid options.

        For one thing, the ‘upload’ MediaWiki API function depends on
        multipart/form-data POST requests, /and/ seem to choke upon text
        encoded via mm-url-form-encode-xwfu.  Hence, Emacs
        implementation of the client side of said API cannot use the
        function in its current form, and would benefit from one capable
        of encoding text/plain parts.

[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Upload

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