HTTP PoSt ... please help !!!

Question

Hi,
I have to simulate an HTTP client and send a file to a server. My code is the following:
URL url = new URL("http://myURL/script.php");
HttpURLConnection urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
urlConnection.setDoOutput(true);
urlConnection.setUseCaches(false);
urlConnection.setRequestMethod("POST");
File fi = new File("myFile.bin");
DataOutputStream printout;
printout = new DataOutputStream(urlConnection.getOutputStream());
String contentType="Content-type: multipart/form-data; boundary=XCVBGFDS\r\n\r\n"
+"--XCVBGFDS\r\n"
+"Content-Disposition: form-data; "
+"name=\"upload\"; filename=\""+fi.getName()+"\"\r\n"
+"Content-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n";
printout.writeBytes(contentType);
int input;
DataInputStream inFile=new DataInputStream(new FileInputStream(fi));
while ((input = inFile.read()) !=-1) {
printout.write(input);
contentType = "--XCVBGFDS--\r\n";
printout.writeBytes(contentType);
printout.flush();
printout.close();
It doesn't work (I can't retrieve the "filename value in the php script"). Thanks for help...
griff

Answer 1

Nothing will be sent to the server until you call URLConnection.getInputStream().
Chuck