ALSB 2.5 - routing request containing multipart/form-data

Question

Hello,
I'm having difficulty routing a request (multipart/data-form with 2 MIME sections) in a
business service.
First, I set up the "attachments" variables in a stage:
<ctx:attachments>
<ctx:attachment>
<ctx:Content-Disposition>form-data; name="RI"; filename="RI"</ctx:Content-Disposition>
<ctx:Content-Type>text/plain</ctx:Content-Type>
<ctx:Content-ID>1146702408781_1</ctx:Content-ID>
<ctx:body>
<RI/>
</ctx:body>
</ctx:attachment>
<ctx:attachment>
<ctx:Content-Disposition>form-data; name="CI"; filename="CI"</ctx:Content-Disposition>
<ctx:Content-Type>text/plain</ctx:Content-Type>
<ctx:Content-ID>1146702408781_1</ctx:Content-ID>
<ctx:body>
<CI/>
</ctx:body>
</ctx:attachment>
</ctx:attachments>
then do node replacements of <RI/> and <CI/> in each
<ctx:body> section.
Then in the routing node,
"Set Transport Headers" for "Outbound Request"
[x] Pass all Headers through Pipeline
Add Header
[Content-Type] --> [Set Header to "multipart/form-data"]
Then I used Ethereal (network protocol analyzer) to
observe the raw packets that business service sent
the request to the target service. It looked like
the POST httprequest output by ALSB does not conform to
the other posting programs that I have wrote in Python
and Ruby. The target webservice rejects the request
sent by ALSB, but accepts those sent by the Python/Ruby
programs.
Anyone here have any experience in how to set this up?
Thanks
Charles

Answer 1

Hello,
Make sure you construct the attachment variable properly as specified in the documentation:
http://e-docs.bea.com/alsb/docs26/userguide/context.html#wp1052039
Gregory Haardt
ALSB Prg. Manager
[email protected]