multipartform-data

Can a servlet determine if the data posted to it is enctype="multipart/form-data"?

I have a servlet that is used for many different actions, used in the Front Controller pattern. Does anyone know if it is possible to tell if the data posted back to it is enctype="multipart/form-data"? I can't read the request parameters until I decide this, so I can't dispatch the request to the proper controller. Any ideas? ...

What HTTP header to use for setting form field names (multipart/form-data)

I'm passing raw HTTP requests to an apache server (received by PHP). The request is of type multipart/form-data, i.e. the same MIME type used when submitting HTML forms. However, I'm not sure what HTTP header to use for setting the form field name (I'm just assuming it's a header defining this, don't know what else it could be) which th...

File Upload using Multi Part Request Failure Question.

Is HTTPS Multipart file upload request a batch process? That is, if I have 99 files, and if the upload fails after file 95 has been uploaded, will that rollback the entire set? ...

Buffered Multipart Form Posts in Ruby

I am currently using Net::HTTP in a Ruby script to post files to a website via a multipart form post. It works great for small files, but I frequently have to send very large files using this script, and HTTP#post only seems to accept post data as a String object, which means that the file I'm sending has to be read into memory before a...

Multipart forms from C# client

I am trying to fill a form in a php application from a C# client (Outlook addin). I used Fiddler to see the original request from within the php application and the form is transmitted as a multipart/form. Unfortunately .Net does not come with native support for this type of forms (WebClient has only a method for uploading a file). Does ...

How can I read other parameters in a multipart form with Apache Commons

I have a file upload form that is being posted back to a servlet (using multipart/form-data encoding). In the servlet, I am trying to use Apache Commons to handle the upload. However, I also have some other fields in the form that are just plain fields. How can I read those parameters from the request? For example, in my servlet, I ...

exception when parsing multipart form data

I am trying to handle a file upload, and I'm using the com.oreilly.servlet.multipart.MultipartParser class to parse the posted data (in cos.jar). However, when I call the constructor for MultipartParser, I get this exception: java.io.IOException: Corrupt form data: premature ending at com.oreilly.servlet.multipart.MultipartParser.<...

Using MultipartPostHandler to POST form-data with Python

Problem: When POSTing data with Python's urllib2, all data is URL encoded and sent as Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded. When uploading files, the Content-Type should instead be set to multipart/form-data and the contents be MIME encoded. A discussion of this problem is here: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/146306/ To...

Can a long file upload be handled by a cluster of (Tomcat) servers where in if one server fails/crashes during the upload, another one picks it up

What happens when Tomcat fails during the upload process. Will it simply throw a 50X error. Is it possible to gracefully handle the server failure and forward the rest of the request to a different server. ...

RESTlet: How to process multipart/form-data requests?

How do you catch incoming @Post variables when it is a multipart/form-data request? For a regular Post request I would do: @Post public void postExample(Representation entity) throws Exception{ Form form = new Form(entity); System.out.println(form.getFirstValue("something")); } But because it is a multipart/form-data request th...

PHP--parsing multipart form data

I'm trying to put together a HTML POST-ed form that has two fields--a file upload, and a text field. Since the form has a type multipart/form-data for the file upload, I can't get at the text field through the normal PHP $_POST variable. So how can I get at the text field in the form with PHP? As per requested, here's some code, basic...

How to submit a multipart/form-data HTTP POST request from C#

What is the easiest way to submit an HTTP POST request with a multipart/form-data content type from C#? There has to be a better way than building my own request. The reason I'm asking is to upload photos to Flickr using this api: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/upload.api.html ...

Avoid multipart/form-data for file transfert

I wrote a light http server in C which can handle simple requests. So I totally control the server side and its future evolution. Now on my Web Application written in Javascript/ExtJS, I need to upload a file on my server. Am I forced to use multipart/form-data to upload a file? Is it bad to directly send the file binary contained in a...

How to create and submit a form using Java Script

I'm writing a Firefox extension that's to be used in house. Basically, I need to submit a pdf file and some text values to a web service. Right now I have a html page that does this. I need the extension to automate the gathering and submission of the data to the web service. Here's the html that works. <body> <form name="frm_upload_fi...

How do i post multipart/form-data that contain symbol

It made me have a headache for hours, i try to post image to twitpic with my twitter account using curl. curl -F "username=myusername" -F "password=='hwsh[g" -F "message=test twitpic" -F media=@/dos/smallapps2/smallapps/tiny-delicious/snapshot/test.png http://twitpic.com/api/uploadAndPost It alway return <?xml version="1.0" enco...

Multipart/form-data and UTF-8 in a ASP Classic application

Hi all, I have a problem that I really don't understand. I'm trying to upload a files in a asp classic app, without the use of an external component. I also want to post some text that will be stored in a DB. The file upload perfectly, I'm using this code: Upload Files Without COM v3 by Lewis E. Moten III The problem is the other form...

Get form parameters from multipart request without getting the files

I'm looking for a way to get the form parameters of a HTTP multi-part request in a Servlet-filter without uploading files (yet). request.getParameterMap() returns empty. I understand this is because of the request being multi-part. I've looked at commons.HttpFileUpload but this seems to be overkill for my situation. In this filter I'm ...

Browser support of multipart responses

Hi, I would like to create a HTTP response, using multipart/mixed, but I'm not sure which browsers support it; and if it's as convenient as it sounds, from the client's point of view. To be honest, I do not need specifically that content type. I just want to transmit more than one file in the same response; maybe there's another content-...

Python: urllib2 multipart/form-data and proxies

The Objective: A script which cycles through a list of proxies and sends a post request, containing a file to a PHP page on my server, which then calculates delivery time. It's a pretty useless script, but I am using it to teach myself about urllib2. The Problem: So far I have got multipart/form-data sending correctly using Poster, but ...

POST an mp3 file using CURL

Hey all, I have been searching and trying different configurations for POSTing mp3 files via CURL for a few hours, but none seem to work. The most recent form I have settled on looks like this: curl -F "[email protected];type=audio/mpeg" -A "Mozilla/5.0" http://65.173.255.180:8000/accounts/user/songs/ This format seems to have...