Re: Sending a file over HTTP with XUL

Kok,

You should be able to do this with no problem. I would look at:

http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/extensions/xml-rpc/src/nsXmlRpcClient.js#157

Which creates an upload stream and POSTs to it in Javascript.

-Adam


Kok Hoor , SolutionX wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>     While browsing thru the newsgroup, I noticed a message entitled:
> Re: downloading a file via HTTP w/ XPCOM and JS
> 
>     Is it also possible to post files via 'multipart/form-data' or some
> other methods (direct sending of raw bytes), directly to the server?
> 
>     The problem I am facing is, I tried to use nsIScriptableInputStream
> For this purpose. Unfortuncately, I can't simple send an entire stream
> without
> processing it, as calling the read command and sending resulting binary
> Bytes to be truncated ( '\0' signifies the end of string ).
> 
>     So I wonder if I can simple send a file over without resorting to
> nsIScriptableInputStream, but perhaps some other XPCOM components
> 
> Regards,
>     Kok Hoor
> 
> 
>