POSTing a file to a web page and reading response
Hi.
I'm trying to read raw data from disk, POSTING it to a site that
converts the file to another format, and then read and save the
response.
I have only found on the web information on how to post a string, not
binary data.
My code only writes the html page to file, not the response file.
This is my code so far:
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URL site = new URL("http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx");
URLConnection conn = site.openConnection();
conn.setDoOutput(true);
conn.setRequestProperty
("Content-Type", "multipart/form-data");
DataOutputStream dos;
OutputStream os = conn.getOutputStream();
dos = new DataOutputStream(os);
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("c:\\temp\
\test.xxx");
int data;
while ((data = fis.read()) != -1) {
dos.write(data);
}
dos.flush();
DataInputStream in = new
DataInputStream(conn.getInputStream());
FileOutputStream fo = new FileOutputStream("c:\\temp\
\test.yyy");
while ((data = in.read()) != -1) {
fo.write(data);
}
fo.flush();
fo.close();
dos.close();
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