Re: Uploading Binary files to HTTPS

From:
"Chizl" <Chizl@NoShitMail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:10:56 -0600
Message-ID:
<ey2hGycbIHA.4140@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:OJB4LOcbIHA.4196@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

Show the code where you call IWinHttpRequest::Send. My guess is, you are
doing something that causes the content to be terminated by the first zero
byte, e.g. handling a BSTR carelessly.


Ok, I posted the code at the bottom.. I got it to a point it doesn't cut
off the file content, however it's as if the web server or the ASPUpload
doesn't know what to do with it.. I cut out a lot of the content below,
because it's binary, but left the header and what's wrapped around the
binary file.. Does this data look right?
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POST /DER/upload.asp HTTP/1.1
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=Xu02=$; Charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 2249
Accept: */*
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; Win32; WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5)
Host: 209.163.160.61:5000
Connection: Keep-Alive

--Xu02=$
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Content-Disposition: multipart/form-data; name="PostData";
filename="1234567890.zip"
Content-Length: 1234

PKzX)????iI/F@
Q??????(}lxsPK 

--Xu02=$
--------------------------------------

Code:
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ifstream infile (szFileName.c_str(), ios::in|ios::binary);
if(!infile)
{
 if (pIWinHttpRequest) {
  pIWinHttpRequest->Release();
  pIWinHttpRequest = NULL;
 }
 *sContents = "ERROR: No file found to upload";
} else {
 //get file size
 struct _stat buf;
 _stat(szFileName.c_str(), &buf);
 int iFileSize = buf.st_size;
 char pHeaderInfo[1024] = {0};

 sprintf(pHeaderInfo, "%d", iFileSize);

 //declare
 int iHeaderSize = 0;
 char* pszFile = (char*)szFileName.c_str();
 string szHeader = "";
 char* strInput = new char[MAX_READ];

 //get file name from file passed in
 int iSize = szFileName.length();
 int iLoc = szFileName.find_last_of("\\")+1;
 iSize -= iLoc;
 memcpy(pszFile, &pszFile[iLoc], iSize);
 pszFile[iSize]=0;

 //create the header
 szHeader.append("--Xu02=$\r\n");
 szHeader.append("Content-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n");
 szHeader.append("Content-Disposition: multipart/form-data;
name=\"PostData\"; filename=\"");
 szHeader.append(pszFile);
 szHeader.append("\"\r\n");
 szHeader.append("Content-Length: ");
 szHeader.append(pHeaderInfo);
 szHeader.append("\r\n\r\n");

 CComBSTR bstrBody = SysAllocString(T2OLE(szHeader.c_str()));

 //load file into array
 while(!infile.eof())
 {
  memset(strInput, 0, MAX_READ);
  infile.read(strInput, MAX_READ);

  unsigned int iBytesRead = 0;
  iBytesRead = infile.gcount();

  bstrBody.Append(strInput);
 }

 bstrBody.Append("\r\n\r\n--Xu02=$\r\n");

 //close file
 infile.close();

 //copy to a format Send understands
 _bstr_t bBody = bstrBody;

 //send data
 hr = pIWinHttpRequest->Send(bBody);

 delete[] strInput;
}
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