Re: Urgent Help needed with Post method file upload

Okay, so in the useragent, I pass the filename as an array reference 
[$task_add_datakey] what actually gets the contents of the file and posts 
them?

Is there another way to do it? Am I better off opening a raw socket and 
writing the headers and the data myself? My concern is that to get the raw 
binary to write properly in the first place, I had to run binmode FILEHANDLE 
":raw" on the file handle that I was writing to. From what I've read, I 
would need to do that on the read of the file contents as well in order to 
properly get the data. Is the library setup to handle raw binary data?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gisle Aas" <[email protected]>
To: "Eric Langheinrich" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: Urgent Help needed with Post method file upload


> "Eric Langheinrich" <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> I'm attempting to post a file in a multipart/form-data post using
>> LWP::UserAgent and the following command string:
>>
>>  my $response = $ua->request(POST $baseurl, Content_Type => 'form-data', 
>> Content => [ request_params => $task_add_postkey, datafile => 
>> [$task_add_datakey] ]);
>>
>>
>> Where $task_add_postkey is a set of key value pairs of form data,
>> and $task_add_datakey is the full path file name of a file
>> containing binary data. The post seems to work fine with the
>> exception of the 48 byte file I am sending, is received as 61 bytes
>> on the server. I'm assuming it has something to do with how the file
>> is being parsed.
>
> Are you able to inspect the file received on the server side to figure
> out what is actually different?
>
>> Is there a better way to put together a multipart post? Am I missing
>> something obvious? Is there a way to control the file parser so that
>> the data is handled as raw binary data?
>
> The file should already be included as binary.  There is no file
> parser involved.
>
>> Any ideas????
>
> Try to print the request that POST() returns above to see if you can
> spot what is wrong.
>
>  $req = POST($baseurl, ....);
>  print $req->as_string;
>
>  $res = $ua->request($req);
>  ...
>
> Regards,
> Gisle
>
>