Hello,

I'm trying to implement a c++ client in linux that can upload and
download files from a HTTP server.


Downloading files seem to be easy, i only have to read the bytes that
the HTTP GET command return in the socket, correct. For this mode
(download) i only have one question, for binary files?
this is done in another way or not?


But to upload files i can seem to understand how this is done. I
can't
seem to understand if the HTTP command to be used is the PUT or POST
but neither one do what i require (that is save a file in the server
side). There is anyone that knows how this is done? what parameters
are required for the correct HTTP command (PUT or POST)?


Thanks

In article <1177355630.993187.69240@b58g2000hsg.googlegroups. com>,
Nuno <nuno.esculcas@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to implement a c++ client in linux that can upload and
> download files from a HTTP server.
>
>
> Downloading files seem to be easy, i only have to read the bytes that
> the HTTP GET command return in the socket, correct. For this mode
> (download) i only have one question, for binary files?
> this is done in another way or not?
>
>
> But to upload files i can seem to understand how this is done. I
> can't
> seem to understand if the HTTP command to be used is the PUT or POST
> but neither one do what i require (that is save a file in the server
> side). There is anyone that knows how this is done? what parameters
> are required for the correct HTTP command (PUT or POST)?

PUT is the command for uploading a file directly to a URL, but I suspect
that most servers don't allow this.

POST is for filling in a form, and the file contents will be the value
of a form field that uses <INPUT TYPE=FILE NAME="filename">. See
<http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/file.html> for information about
uploading a file in a form.

--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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See RFC 1867.

On Apr 23, 12:13 pm, Nuno <nuno.escul...@gmail.com> wrote:

> But to upload files i can seem to understand how this is done. I
> can't
> seem to understand if the HTTP command to be used is the PUT or POST
> but neither one do what i require (that is save a file in the server
> side). There is anyone that knows how this is done? what parameters
> are required for the correct HTTP command (PUT or POST)?

There is no "one right way". Check the documentation for the
particular web server you need to upload to.

DS