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Posted by Lee on 10/12/08 11:52
Thanks, I'll try this!
Gertjan Klein wrote:
> Lee wrote:
>
> >The only way that the entire string would transfer in the post request
> >was if I used urlencode.
>
> That doesn't sound like the right approach to me though. PHP will have
> to have the entire image in a string, instead of just writing it to a
> file. This may give problems on larger images.
>
> I'd still suggest you change your applet to use the standard post method
> that browsers use. You'll need a header stating the Content-Type is
> multipart/form-data. The posted contents needs to be formatted like a
> MIME message. As far as I can tell you don't need to encode the data in
> any way. (A quick test using tcptrace shows that at least firefox posts
> image data unencoded.)
>
> I am in no way qualified to give Java advice (and this is not the
> newsgroup to give it in), but you may want to try using the apache
> commons HTTP client class:
>
> http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/
>
> I have used it successfully in the past to post data to a server. It
> takes care of all the low-level details for you, and can post the image
> contents in a browser-compatible way. Doing it this way you know that
> the PHP side will be trivial, as PHP will save the posted data in a file
> for you.
>
> HTH,
> Gertjan.
>
> --
> Gertjan Klein <gklein@xs4all.nl>
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