OpenEuphoria

Re: Sending a File Over HTTP

• Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Aug 07, 2013
• 1964 views

Aren't you using curl or libcurl for that? Posting a text file the standard way should work just fine with the stdlib, but your case is not standard.

Untested, but I just mocked up a version of http.e that should do what you need. See http://openeuphoria.org/pastey/229.wc

Here's how you'd call it (assuming that it works):

        -- custom data 
        sequence file_content = "COMMAND\tORDER\r\nAUTH\t\YES\r\n..." 
	-- if you have a text file in the right format with the right data, 
	-- you should be able to just read its contents into file_content as 
	-- a flat sequence 
 
        -- post file script gets size and file parameters, calls decode_base64, and sends 
        -- back SIZE\nDECODED_FILE_CONTENTS. The test script is written in Perl to test against 
        -- modules we did not code, i.e. CGI and Base64 in this case. 
        object content = http_post("http://confidential/program.cgi", { RAW_POST_DATA, "application/x-what-goes-here", file_content }) 

Your posts didn't specify if a particular content-type was required, and if so what that should be (e.g application/x-what-goes-here). Your data interface specs should have this information.