Uploading files over HTTP fails on iOS 8.0.0 GM Safari

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UPDATE:
Confirmed: This has been fixed on the iOS 8.0.2 update.

Using PUT/POST to upload file(s) over HTTP seems to get stuc

Answer 1

Update: Apple released iOS 8.0.2 yesterday and has fixed the upload bug.

File upload are broken in iOS 8.0. All files uploaded in Mobile Safari return 0-sized [1].

Hopefully this gets fixed by Apple in the next release. It seems like it is not affecting home screen webapps though:

File uploads are broken!! Every file upload is not working, you can select a file or take a picture and after that JavaScript will not get any data, as well as the server on a POST upload through HTML or XMLHttpRequest upload. The problem doesn’t seem to apply for home screen webapps.

Source: http://www.mobilexweb.com/blog/safari-ios8-iphone6-web-developers-designers

[1] http://blog.fineuploader.com/2014/09/10/ios8-presents-serious-issues-that-prevent-file-uploading/