File Upload to HTTP server in iphone programming

Question

Can anyone provide me some links or examples to upload files to the HTTP server using iphone APIs.

Answer 1

ASIHTTPRequest is a great wrapper around the network APIs and makes it very easy to upload a file. Here's their example (but you can do this on the iPhone too - we save images to "disk" and later upload them.

ASIFormDataRequest *request = [[[ASIFormDataRequest alloc] initWithURL:url] autorelease]; [request setPostValue:@"Ben" forKey:@"first_name"]; [request setPostValue:@"Copsey" forKey:@"last_name"]; [request setFile:@"/Users/ben/Desktop/ben.jpg" forKey:@"photo"]; 

Answer 2

The code below uses HTTP POST to post NSData to a webserver. You also need minor knowledge of PHP.

NSString *urlString = @"http://yourserver.com/upload.php"; NSString *filename = @"filename"; request= [[[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] init] autorelease]; [request setURL:[NSURL URLWithString:urlString]]; [request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"]; NSString *boundary = @"---------------------------14737809831466499882746641449"; NSString *contentType = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"multipart/form-data; boundary=%@",boundary]; [request addValue:contentType forHTTPHeaderField: @"Content-Type"]; NSMutableData *postbody = [NSMutableData data]; [postbody appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"\r\n--%@\r\n",boundary] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]]; [postbody appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"userfile\"; filename=\"%@.jpg\"\r\n", filename] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]]; [postbody appendData:[[NSString stringWithString:@"Content-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n"] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]]; [postbody appendData:[NSData dataWithData:YOUR_NSDATA_HERE]]; [postbody appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"\r\n--%@--\r\n",boundary] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]]; [request setHTTPBody:postbody];  NSData *returnData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:nil error:nil]; returnString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:returnData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]; NSLog(@"%@", returnString);