Send a file via "put" command to a URL

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Send a file via "put" command to a URL

Post by pink » Wed Apr 06, 2016 10:27 pm

I am working on adding attachments to records in CouchDB.
I am trying to mimic the following command:

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curl -X PUT http://couch.mad.pink/test_suite_db2/zxsd3324d/bad_luck_friday13.jpg?rev=12-f5f9f6f0af4cb1f113c9794a10daf5bd \
    --data-binary /User/pink/Dropbox/bad_luck_friday13.jpg \
    -H "Cookie: AuthSession=cm9vdDo1NzA0NUVDRTovU5Y6gklEjt27Rn53KlC8TDQ4KQ" \
    -H "Content-Type: image/jpg"

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put "Cookie: AuthSession=cm9vdDo1NzA0NUVDRTovU5Y6gklEjt27Rn53KlC8TDQ4KQ"&cr&"Content-Type: image/jpg" into tHeader
set httpHeaders to tHeader
put "http://localhost/test_suite_db2/zxsd3324d/bad_luck_friday13.jpg?rev=12-f5f9f6f0af4cb1f113c9794a10daf5bd" into tURL

--TRY 1:
put "binfile:/User/pink/Dropbox/bad_luck_friday13.jpg" into tFilePath
put  URL(tFilePath) into URL(tURL)

--TRY 2:
put  URL ("binfile:/User/pink/Dropbox/bad_luck_friday13.jpg") into tFile
put  tFile into URL(tURL)
in both of the above attempts, the file is successfully created at the server, however it is empty

Can anyone suggest another approach?
Greg (pink) Miller

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Re: Send a file via "put" command to a URL

Post by Simon » Thu Apr 07, 2016 12:15 am

Hi Greg,
I don't know about CouchDB but I load the img into a card then

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 put the text of img "Image_Test" into tImg
 put base64encode (tImg) into gImageData
and upload gImageData.

Works with mySQL. Oh, I guess I never tried blob.

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Re: Send a file via "put" command to a URL

Post by pink » Thu Apr 07, 2016 12:53 pm

unfortunately that won't work because CouchDB also works as an http server, image files need to stay images or they won't display
Greg (pink) Miller

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Re: Send a file via "put" command to a URL

Post by pink » Sun Apr 10, 2016 4:17 am

well, after working on this for way too long I have discovered that the following does indeed work:

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put "binfile:/Users/pink/Dropbox/bad_luck_friday13.jpg" into tFilePath
put  URL(tFilePath) into URL(tURL)
Shamefully I have to admit that the problem all this time was a typo in my file path.
Greg (pink) Miller

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