Just wondering about multipart

[eluser]slowgary[/eluser]
I did a search for multipart forms but it lead to a few RFCs and personally I don't feel those are made to be understood by humans, only robots. Nothing I read made it seem as though there's any reason you COULDN'T just put it on every form.

The only thing that comes to my mind is security, since the client would then be able to include file data with a form submission. I don't know if it would actually create a situation of insecurity. Not any more so than if it were an actual file upload form. If someone did include file data with their form submission I believe it justs goes to the server's temp directory and if your PHP script doesn't move & rename it, it gets deleted after the script finishes.

Would it be possible that the user could submit a massive file? What if the user submitted the form with 10000 files each 2mb in size? Again, I guess these same problems exist with any file upload form. Just trying to look at it from many angles.