Sending a file to website through post request

b1gsnak3

Hello!

I am encountering one problem in sending a file with post request. I have a url "www.example.com/sth.php" and I must send a post request with similar to php input type=file. I assumed that this should be in the form of a bytearray. However when I send my bytearray to the webserver nothing happens

AcerExtensa

Why you didn't check the forum before posting? On the first page there is already [solved] topic about uploading file to the server. "QNetworkAccessManager uploading files":http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/11361/

b1gsnak3

yes well that solution doesn't work for me :)

raven-worx

[quote author="b1gsnak3" date="1365684789"]yes well that solution doesn't work for me :)[/quote]

and what exactly doesn't work for you? The solution from the topic seems like a legit POST-request to me?
Show us how your request looks like?

b1gsnak3

I have multiple parameters in my php.. for example a post would look like:

a=upload&t=token&file=image

raven-worx

if that's all the info you're providing i think nobody will be able to help you.

What isn't working?
How you you create the Request?
etc.

b1gsnak3

@
QUrl url;
url.addQueryItem("a", "upload");
url.addQueryItem("t", token);
url.addQueryItem("file", pictureByteArray.toHex());

QNetworkRequest req;
req.setUrl("www.example.com/sth.php");

QNetworkAccessManager networkAM;
networkAM.post(req, url.encodedQuery());

connect(&networkAM, SIGNAL(finished(QNetworkReply ), this, SLOT(replyHandler(QNetworkReply)));
@

KA51O

Just from having a look at the documentation of QNAM::post I can tell that this line can not work.
@
networkAM.post(req, url.encodedQuery());
@

b1gsnak3

Well.. This is weird as I get reply from server... Why do you say it will not work?

KA51O

Ok. I have no experience with QNAM, but the doc just mentioned QIODevice, const QByteArray & and QHttpMultiPart * as candidates for the second argument of post. And since QUrl inherits from none of these I thought this could not work.

I would have tried something like this. But this is just a shot in the dark.
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QUrl url ("www.example.com/sth.php");
url.addQueryItem("a", "upload");
url.addQueryItem("t", token);
//url.addQueryItem("file", pictureByteArray.toHex()); Not sure if this is needed with my suggestion

QNetworkRequest req;
req.setUrl(url);

QNetworkAccessManager networkAM;
QFile* myImage = new QFile("filePath")
if(myImage->open(QIODevice::ReadOnly))
{
networkAM.post(req, myImage);
}
@

b1gsnak3

QUrl::encodedQuery() returns a QByteArray

KA51O

Ahh ok. Sry for the confusion I caused.

Edit: Maybe the problem is related to this comment from the docs of QNAM::post [quote]data must be open for reading and must remain valid until the finished() signal is emitted for this reply.[/quote]

The object returned by QUrl::encodedQuery goes out of scope after the function returns ?

b1gsnak3

That is not the problem.. I created a new QByteArray to store the return value but still nothing happens... I think I must create my own model for sending after sniffing what a post method in php sends to the server :( bleah got into software to escape web dev and now i have to do this... Thank you I will submit some code example after I finish (if I finish)

KA51O

^^ Completely agree on the web dev part. Maybe "the example in the QHtmlMultiPart doc":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qhttpmultipart.html#details can be helpful ? Anyways good luck.

Code_ReaQtor

Try to use "FormPost":http://www.tuckdesign.com/sources/Qt

I have a similar problem when I am starting to code for an API which includes a "HTML Form" for sending files to a server. I used QNAM::post()... tried QHttpMultiPart... but still they won't work. Found out that there is something wrong with QHttpMultiPart and it uses a different specification (RFC 2046).

FormPost should work. I just modified some parts of it and it worked like a charm. You can visit my "site":https://github.com/Code-ReaQtor/libqsendspace/tree/master/qsendspace/src for reference.

b1gsnak3

Ty very much I believe this is what I must use I think. xD Will try tomorrow today my head is pounding from head banging the keyboard ^^

b1gsnak3

Ok so QHttpMultiPart doesn't work (wish I would've checked the post sooner, before head banging my head with it, seeing as someone already tried using this). Will try your solution tomorrow, thank you Code_ReaQtor