Inserting an image from an URL in a BLOB

Question

Hello all,
As it's said in the title, I need a PL/SQL procedure to insert a image from web URL in a BLOB table column.
How can I do that?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Max

Answer 1

found this on the internet http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/misc/RetrievingHTMLandBinariesIntoTablesOverHTTP.php
CREATE TABLE http_blob_test (
  id    NUMBER(10),
  url   VARCHAR2(255),
  data  BLOB,
  CONSTRAINT http_blob_test_pk PRIMARY KEY (id)
CREATE SEQUENCE http_blob_test_seq;
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE load_binary_from_url (p_url  IN  VARCHAR2) AS
  l_http_request   UTL_HTTP.req;
  l_http_response  UTL_HTTP.resp;
  l_blob           BLOB;
  l_raw            RAW(32767);
BEGIN
  -- Initialize the BLOB.
  DBMS_LOB.createtemporary(l_blob, FALSE);
  -- Make a HTTP request and get the response.
  l_http_request  := UTL_HTTP.begin_request(p_url);
  l_http_response := UTL_HTTP.get_response(l_http_request);
  -- Copy the response into the BLOB.
  BEGIN
    LOOP
      UTL_HTTP.read_raw(l_http_response, l_raw, 32767);
      DBMS_LOB.writeappend (l_blob, UTL_RAW.length(l_raw), l_raw);
    END LOOP;
  EXCEPTION
    WHEN UTL_HTTP.end_of_body THEN
      UTL_HTTP.end_response(l_http_response);
  END;
  -- Insert the data into the table.
  INSERT INTO http_blob_test (id, url, data)
  VALUES (http_blob_test_seq.NEXTVAL, p_url, l_blob);
  -- Relase the resources associated with the temporary LOB.
  DBMS_LOB.freetemporary(l_blob);
EXCEPTION
  WHEN OTHERS THEN
    UTL_HTTP.end_response(l_http_response);
    DBMS_LOB.freetemporary(l_blob);
    RAISE;
END load_binary_from_url;
EXEC load_binary_from_url('http://forums.oracle.com/forums/themes/english/resources/oralogo_small.gif');