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Posted by Lee on 07/11/06 19:09
While I'm trying this, is there any other help...?
Lee wrote:
> 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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