Posting binary data -- followup

[Devin Asay]

It's got two things in it: line 1 contains the custom http headers needed to submit the post request, and lines 2 to the end contain the actual posted form data.

The URL referred to by Dave Cragg in my previous email explains it in more detail.

Devin



On Dec 14, 2010, at 3:21 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote:

> 
> Hi Devin,
> 
> Just out of curiosity:
> What is the content of the variable "tForm"?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Al
> 
> 
> Devin Asay wrote:
>> 
>> I followed the example at that URL and it worked like a charm. I used this
>> script, which also displays the multipart form data so you can see what's
>> going on behind the scenes:
>> 
>> on mouseUp
>>    put empty into tForm # create the variable
>> 
>>    put "Devin" into tName
>>    put "2010-12-13" into tDate
>> 
>>    answer file "Choose file: "
>>    if it is empty then exit mouseUp
>>    put "<file>" & it into tFile 
>>    if libUrlMultiPartFormData(tForm, "name", tName, "date", tDate,
>> "file", tFile) is not empty then
>>        answer "error:" & it
>>    else
>>        set the httpHeaders to line 1 of tForm 
>>        put tForm into fld 1 -- shows the multipart form data in a field
>>        post line 2 to -1 of tForm to url
>> "http://some.server.com/test_post/a_script.cgi"
>>        -- answer the result  -- for debugging: displays error, if any
>>        set the htmltext of fld 3 to it
>>        --  put it into fld 3: uncomment to show raw html
>>    end if
>> end mouseUp
>> 
>> Hope this is helpful to someone.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Devin
>> 
> 
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Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University