Posted by Bint on 03/20/06 01:41

What I have is not a file, it is just an array of binary data. The device
doesn't have a file system. I need to be able to send the binary data
without it being in a file.

Bint


"Manuel Lemos" <mlemos@acm.org> wrote in message
news:441DD5E8.4060400@acm.org...
> Hello,
>
> on 03/18/2006 09:56 PM Bint said the following:
>> I have even encoded my data in base64 so that it is ready to send as
>> ASCII.
>> This data is broken into chunks where after each 76 characters there is a
>> \r\n line break. I read that I needed to do that.
>
> No, that is not the way to post binary files.
>
>
>> But HOW do I send it? If I send it as form data, with variables, then it
>> only receives the data up until the first line break. I tried changing
>> the
>> content type to "Content-Type: application/octet-stream\n", thinking that
>> I
>> could just send the data without form variables, but then how do you
>> access
>> that from PHP? For example I tried sending the string "data=XXXYYY"
>> where
>> XXXYYY is my base64 encoded data, but it didn't work.
>>
>> I can't seem to find any good documentation about this. Which
>> Content-Type
>> shouldI be using? Can I use octet-streams and still have the data
>> connected
>> to php variables? It's very confusing.
>
> You need to post it like normal forms with file fields. It must be sent
> with multipart/form-data content type and then you need to compose a
> multipart form body.
>
> You may also want to take a look at this http client class that can post
> files this way transparently:
>
> http://www.phpclasses.org/httpclient
>
>
> --
>
> Regards,
> Manuel Lemos
>
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