How to escape Multipart HTTP boundary

2019-08-12 18:22发布

问题:

Let's say I'm sending a multipart request (or response). I need to choose a multipart boundary which does not appear in any of my payloads. However, my payloads are large binary files and I am streaming them to the destination. I want to avoid streaming them twice - once to scan for the boundary and one to stream out.

So my question is: is it possible to escape the boundary if it appears in the payload? If so, how?

回答1:

Don't Panic. Your boundary can be up to 70 characters long. If you go with that maximum and randomly generate it out of characters and numbers you'll have 62⁷⁰ possible combinations for each position in a file. Chance of having the same sequence of bytes in your binary files is so infinitesimal that it shouldn't bother your sleep at all