[ptt-users] setFile corrupting data on multi-part HTTP POST?

[Mark.Lutton at thomson.com]

What's probably happening in (1) is that ProtocolHandler is assuming UTF-8 encoding.  I had the same problem in downloading applet code.  Hex 85 in the file was converted to hex 26.
 
I solved this by using Java.  Here is Jython code to use the Java classes to download.  You can do something similar to upload data.  Wrap the file in a DataInputStream, read it and write it into the connection's output stream.
 
from java.net import URL, URLConnection
from java.io import DataOutputStream, FileOutputStream, DataInputStream
 
myURL = URL('''http://localhost:8080/MyApp/applets/Applets.jar")
cc = myURL.openConnection()
jarFile = DataOutputStream(FileOutputStream("Applets.jar")
inStream = DataInputStream(cc.getInputStream())
inNum = inStream.read()
while -1 != inNum:
    jarFile.write(inNum)
    inNum = inStream.read()
jarFile.close()
print "Applets.jar written"
 
 
 
Mark Lutton
Business Intelligence Services, a Thomson Business
 

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From: users-bounces at lists.pushtotest.com on behalf of Friedman, Seth
Sent: Wed 12/13/2006 4:44 PM
To: users at lists.pushtotest.com
Subject: [ptt-users] setFile corrupting data on multi-part HTTP POST?



Hi,

 

Two questions.

 

(1)

With the following excerpt of code,

 

self.body.setFile(filetoupload, "video/x-ms-wmv", "Filedata")    

(..bunch of parameters..)

self.response = self.http.connect()

 

 

I'm seeing the source and received binary data differ.  The filesizes are identical, but hex 90s are all converted to hex 3F.

Is there an alternative to setFile() that would be more suited for binary data?

 

(2)

In testmaker, the parts to the multi-part POST are generated seemingly independent of the order that I add parameters.    Regardless of whether I put the setFile call at the beginning or end of a series of self.body.addParameter() calls, I'm seeing the file POSTed first of the parts of the multi-part post.    Looking at the RFC (2388 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2388.txt sec 5.5) it seems like this might actually matter.    Is there a way that I can control ordering that the parts of a multi part post works?

 

Thanks!

seth