Ben, What type of data is the applet posting? Can you tell why it is posting it using the application/octet-stream content type? This content type is more commonly used to transport files.
Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------ Chris Lomvardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] Syscom, Inc. 400 E. Pratt Street, Suite 300 Baltimore, MD 21202 (410)539-3737 x1722 voice (410)539-7302 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] (pager via email) http://www.syscom.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: Ben Koshy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 12:35 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Processing an HTTP Post (not form) I have a java applet that posting some data to my cold fusion template. But I can't seem to access the data. It doesn't appear to be showing up in a FORM post, more of a raw-socket post as far as I can tell from the documentation. When I output the CGI structure seen by the webserver via the Cold Fusion Template, I get the list attached at the bottom. As you can see, 46K of some data is being detected but I don't know how to access this data. I also notice the request method is now set to POST instead of GET. Even though I loop from the form structure and the variable fieldnames it doesn't see any named variables. The java applet also has the ability to transmit a header before the post, is there a way I can fake a form header so this data does show up as a form field? HTTP_CONTENT_LENGTH - 46840 HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE - application/octet-stream These CGI variables show the 46K of data coming through... Any ideas? INSTRUCTIONS ON THE POST FORMAT: ================================== this is the format of POST Data P(1Byte Character) Length of The header for CGI author(8byte Characters) The header for CGI author Length of Image(8byte Characters) \r\n(CR LF) Image data(format is PNG or JPEG) Length of thumbnail(8byte Characters) thumbnail(format is PING or JPEG or AnimationData) Length of thumbnail2(8byte Characters) thumbnail(format is PING or JPEG or AnimationData ) Length is not transmitted, either, when there is not thumbnail. format of poo=true 0x00000000 \r\n(CR LF) Image data(format is PNG or JPEG) Lnegth of thumbnaill(8byte characters) thumbnail(format is PING or JPEG or AnimationData) MY CGI ENVIRONMENT RECEIVED AFTER THE POST: ========================================== CF_TEMPLATE_PATH - d:\index.cfm CONTENT_LENGTH - 46840 CONTENT_TYPE - application/octet-stream GATEWAY_INTERFACE - CGI/1.1 HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE - en HTTP_CONNECTION - close HTTP_CONTENT_LENGTH - 46840 HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE - application/octet-stream HTTP_HOST - 127.0.0.1 HTTP_REFERER - http://127.0.0.1/ HTTP_USER_AGENT - PaintBBS/2.x (Windows NT;5.0) HTTPS - off HTTPS_KEYSIZE - HTTPS_SECRETKEYSIZE - HTTPS_SERVER_ISSUER - HTTPS_SERVER_SUBJECT - QUERY_STRING - fuseaction=test REMOTE_USER - REQUEST_METHOD - POST SERVER_NAME - 127.0.0.1 SERVER_PORT - 80 SERVER_PORT_SECURE - 0 SERVER_PROTOCOL - HTTP/1.0 SERVER_SOFTWARE - Microsoft-IIS/5.0 WEB_SERVER_API - ISAPI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
