How to upload a file from applet to the webserver ?

[Amit Hetawal]

Hello All,
I want to get around the file upload of the html forms on to my web server.
Now since i have a signed applet which is running on the client machines, i was thinking if i can use the applets capability to upload a give hard coded file on to my webserver. I can make use of any servlet/jsp if needed in order to handle the request on the server side. But am not sure where do i start from in order to upload a file from applet to the webserver.
Can someone provide me a jump start on this.

Thanks,

[Ulf Dittmer]

The applet would use the Apache Commons HttpClient library, while the servlet would use Apache Commons FileUpload. This page links to an article on how to use them.

[Amit Hetawal]

Hello,
i tries using the link provided, and it works beautifully when i try it out in my local server with the code as :

PostMethod filePost = new PostMethod("http://localhost:9080/myapp/ProcessFileUpload.jsp");

But when i try it in my dev, which is like an SSO protected server env,
if i use the above code for it as :

PostMethod filePost = new PostMethod("http://devServer/myapp/ProcessFileUpload.jsp");

The code returns me ok, but my jsp is never executed on the server.

Can you please help, how can i get it running. Do i need to send some user password to get it ??


Thanks,

[Ulf Dittmer]

If the server requires a username/password, then yes, you'll need to send one. HttpClient supports various authentication methods.

[Amit Hetawal]

hello Ulf,

Thanks for your help so far, i was able to remove the SSO from the my upload jsp, and so i can see my post methos hitting this jsp on the server. But now i have this problem of contentType =null, i get this output from my jsp whenevr i try to hit it. Any advice what am i doing wrong:

ERROR :
E SRVE0026E: [Servlet Error]-[the request doesn't contain a multipart/form-data or multipart/mixed stream, content type header is null]: org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileUploadBase$InvalidContentTypeException: the request doesn't contain a multipart/form-data or multipart/mixed stream, content type header is null


HTTPCLIENT CODE ;
public static void writeToServer(String imageFile) throws IOException {
HttpClient client = new HttpClient();

File f = new File(imageFile);

PostMethod filePost = new PostMethod("http://devserver/temp/ProcessFileUpload.jsp");
Part[] parts = {
new StringPart("param_name", "value"),
new FilePart(f.getName(), f)
};

filePost.setRequestEntity(
new MultipartRequestEntity(parts, filePost.getParams())
);
int status = client.executeMethod(filePost);


FileUplaod.jsp code :

System.out.println("Content Type ="+request.getContentType());
FileItemFactory factory = new DiskFileItemFactory();
ServletFileUpload fu = new ServletFileUpload (factory);
fu.setSizeMax(10000000);
List fileItems = fu.parseRequest(request);
Iterator itr = fileItems.iterator();

I just get the exception on the parseRequest as contentType is null



Thanks,

[Amit Hetawal]

hello,
Ok am able to figure out my error, of getting header as null.

The code i changed was :

File f = new File(imageFile);

FilePart s = new FilePart(f.getName(), f);
s.setContentType("multipart/form-data");

PostMethod filePost = new PostMethod("http://devsever/temp/ProcessFileUpload.jsp");
Part[] parts = {
s
};


Setting the content type explicitly, for my image file.


Thanks Ulf for all your help.


Regards,