Better File Uploading Approach - HTTP Post Multipart vs HTTP Put?

Question

Situation - Upload a simple image file to a server, which clients could later retrieve

1) Designate a FTP Server for the job.

2) HTTP Put - It can directly upload files to a server without the need of a server side
component to handle the bytestream.

3) HTTP Post - handle the bytestream by the server side component.

(interested from a Java EE Perspective...)

Answer 1

PUT is only appropriate when you know the URL you are putting to.

You could also do:

4) POST to obtain a URL to which you then PUT the file.

edit: how are you going to get the HTTP server to decide whether it is OK to accept a particular PUT request?

Answer 2

What I usually do (via PHP) is HTTP POST.

And employ PHP's move_uploaded_file() to get it to whatever destination I want.