[RESOLVED] Help composing Http request to upload file Without any HTML

[asymptote]

Hi guys.

I want to upload a file to ifile.it, an online sharing service (just like rapidshare.) They offer an api which i am trying to play with.

Okay the situation is that there are two steps involved in uploading a file to the server.
1) to find the server number i have done it successfully (by composing a correct http request-as given in the api).
2) 2nd step is given here http://ifile.it/misc?article=api_upload_single

The question is that I do not know how to find all the arguments needed in composing the correct http request.
I can get content length by size function.
I can make content-type: multipart/form-data (should it be form-data?) by writing as it is.
I do not know what boundary means???
I do not know how to get content-disposition; name etc...

So Please help me out.😕

By the way following is the example they have given: (if you do not want to visit a page)

[INDENT]POST /upload?apikey=<apikey>&response=text HTTP/1.1
Host: sX.ifile.it
User-Agent: MyClient 1.1
Content-Length: 778033
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------114782935826962

-----------------------------114782935826962
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Filedata"; filename="Penguins.jpg"
Content-Type: image/jpeg

...rest of request truncated due to excessive lenght, 
basically the filedata is here, use wireshark with classic upload tool for an illustration...
[/INDENT]

The response tells you the link and some information about the file.

• the <apikey> is a key.
  X in the HOST is the server id which is the first step.
  * The file I want to store is on my web host and i am running this also on the web host. And there's no html involved. (I just want to read the file's information and be able to compose a good http request.)

Thanks you in advance 🙂

[johanafm]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME gives some information on MIME messages, including multipart, boundaries and content disposition, and it also has links to the relevant RFCs.

[asymptote]

Hi

My problem got solved.🙂

I successfully composed http request.
I used a small class mimetype.php available at phpclasses, it was a bit incomplete but with the help of http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/151/%28gs%29+Mime+type+listing (where all possible mime types are available) I added what i wanted.

Plus I learnt a few other things like, content-length have to be exact and this is equal to all the data between boundary variables.

So I guess you should modify the title by appending "[Solved]"

[Weedpacket]

asymptote wrote:

So I guess you should modify the title by appending "[Solved]"

You can do that yourself by using the option given under the "Thread Tools" manual.