On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 11:30 -0700, ghanchakkar wrote:
> Please help me.
> I building a bot and trying to upload file along with form fields. when
> compare the request generated by httpclient with that of microsoft browser,
> I notice that httpclient is having following format after the header.
> -------------------------------boundaryid
> Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fieldname1"
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>
> value1
> -------------------------------boundaryid
> Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fieldname2"
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>
> value2
> -------------------------------boundaryid
> :
> :
>
> But internet explorer generates request in following format
> -------------------------------boundaryid
> Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fieldname1"
>
> value1
> -------------------------------boundaryid
> Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fieldname2"
>
> value2
> -------------------------------boundaryid
> :
> :
>
> Notice the Content-Type and Content-Transfer-Encoding fields are populated
> by HttpClient.
> The webserver is not expecting these two fields
Then the webserver is buggy.
> and therefore throwing me an
> error as it is not able to trace the value for the required formfield (I
> guess it is poorly written server)
>
> How do I get rid of these extra two values while using httpclient
> multipartentity.
Set them to null.
Hope this helps.
Oleg
> please see snippet of my code below
>
> Part[] parts = new Part[files.length + nvPairs.length];
>
> //setup form fields
> for(int i = 0 ; i < nvPairs.length ; i++){
> parts[i] = new StringPart(nvPairs[i].getName(),
> nvPairs[i].getValue(),CHAR_SET);
> }
> //setup files
> for(int i = nvPairs.length, j=0 ; j < files.length ; j++,i++){
> File targetFile = new File(files[j].getValue());
> parts[i] = new FilePart(files[j].getValue(), targetFile);
> }
>
> post.setRequestEntity(new MultipartRequestEntity(parts, post.getParams()));
>
> httpClient.getHttpConnectionManager().getParams().setConnectionTimeout(5000);
>
> statusCode = httpClient.executeMethod(post);
>
>
>
> Please help ASAP.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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