http uploading

xdentan

Could anyone show me an example of what a client would send to upload data using http? So far I have tried sending this:

POST /post.php HTTP/1.1
Host: foo.bar
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 14

data=something

which works great, but doesn't work for binary data, only text files. I have searched around and found http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1867.txt which describes file uploading, but I can't get it to work. From one of the examples they show:

Content-type: multipart/form-data, boundary=AaB03x
--AaB03x
content-disposition: form-data; name="field1"
Joe Blow
--AaB03x
content-disposition: form-data; name="pics"; filename="file1.txt"
Content-Type: text/plain
... contents of file1.txt ...
--AaB03x--

but when I send this to my server, apache responds that it can't understand the request. I have also modified the last example adding the POST, and Hostname lines, but that didn't work. Anyone know the correct response i need to be sending?

thanks

Nomaad

<?PHP
//define the page your on
$this_file = whatever.php

//work the post
if(isset($POST['upload']))
{
$name = $FILES['userfile']['name'];
$name = str_replace($replace_vars, '', $name);
$tmpName = $FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'];
$type = $FILES['userfile']['type'];
$size = $_FILES['userfile']['size'];

$filePath = $uploadDir . $name;

$result    = move_uploaded_file($tmpName, $filePath);
if (!$result) {
    echo "Error uploading file";
    exit;
}


if(!get_magic_quotes_gpc())
{
    $name  = addslashes($name);
    $filePath  = addslashes($filePath);
}

echo "File Uploaded"; ?>

. . . . you will need this in your form . . . .
<form action="<?php echo $this_file; ?>" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="edit_image">

. . . . you will also need to place this in your form . . . .
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="5000000" />
<input name="userfile" type="file" id="userfile" />

xdentan

Thanks for the help, but I guess I didn't really make myself clear enough. I am trying to make an uploader client in C. I just can't figure out what request to send to the server.

thanks though 😉