Re: Uploading Binary files to HTTPS

From:
"Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]" <rbv@nospam.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:52:05 -0600
Message-ID:
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Chizl wrote:

I'm getting really frustrated with this.. I've been working on this
for over 16 hours and have yet to get a binary file uploaded to a
HTTP server.. I've done some notation below.

"Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]" <rbv@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
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Chizl wrote:

"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org> wrote in message
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Chizl <Chizl@NoShitMail.com> wrote:

CComBSTR bstrHeader;
bstrHeader.Append("Content-Length: ");
bstrHeader.Append(pSize);
bstrHeader.Append("Cache-Control: no-cache\r\n");
bstrHeader.Append("Content-Type: multipart/form-data;
boundary=Xu02=$; Charset=UTF-8\r\n");


No, not BSTR. That's what Igor has been telling you. BSTR is
UNICODE, HTTP uses single byte characters.

Use std::string or CStringA instead.


When I try using an STL String I get errors.. WinHttpAddRequestHeaders()
second param requires a const unsigned
short *. Best that I know is to T2OLE(char*), but that's basically
doing the same thing I'm already doing.
I've updated the file...
http://www.chizl.com/aspuploaded/WinHTTP.cpp

I'm receiving no errors, everything seems to do what it supposed to do
through IIS, however the server never saves the file.. Based on the
code, I've added a totalbytes sent and it shows all data was sent.. I'm
not seeing where the problem is..


All this Unicode stuff in WinHttp is really stupid (the library, not you),
there is no Unicode in HTTP, there's 8-bit headers and binary payload.

But I checked and WinHttp seems to be Unicode-only. Try WinInet instead
(looks like the same usage pattern, you'd use HttpOpenRequestA,
HttpAddRequestHeadersA, etc).

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