It seems like you are doing a lot of work, because of a poorly-designed server script. I would really try and see if you can get permission to modify the script.
If not, perhaps you can have a 'bridge' script, that recieves the data from flash, formats it correctly for the other script, then forwards it. All the flash 8 methods of sending data to server that I can think of, will have some sort of header or data format that will need to be processed first. -David R On 3/5/07, Carlos Saenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am trying to send binary data to a server side script which takes a variable called file, and saves it as a binary file. so if I have a variable in my flash movie "myfile", with a value of "asdf", and I send that to the server, it will make a file on the filesystem called "myfile", and the contents of it will be asdf Now, the trick is to send the script an image or video file. I have tried the following ways: 1) Using FileReference class (Flash 8) --- This works with php and move_uploaded_file. --- This does NOT work the server side script mentioned above. It adds headers to the file. Same headers found here: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/ wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00002225.html Namely: Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=AaB03x --AaB03x Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Filedata"; filename="example.jpg" Content-Type: application/octet-stream ... contents of example.jpg ... --AaB03x-- PHP can handle this, the other script cannot. Unfortunately we are stuck with the other script. So I looked at different ways to send binary data to the server, without using FileReference. 2) Flex Builder 2. Here we have some new classes. Such as URLRequest and URLLoader, where you can use URLLoaderDataFormat.BINARY. This transferred the file to the server side script we are stuck with perfectly. No errors or problems. Unfortunately they want a Flash Player 8 solution. 3) Some examples on the web where people have taken a BitmapData object in Flash 8 and programmatically convert a bitmap into an array of string data which represents pixel data, which is converted on the server to an image. -- Is this method possible with LoadVars to send a binary stream of data to a script via POST, which will make it think it's the same as a file upload??? Well these are my three options 1) FileReference -- Flash 8 --> Is there a way to eliminate the headers its sending by default? 2) Flex Builder 2 - URLLoader class --> Any way to use this in Flash Player 8? (Doesn't seem possible) 3) Manually encode binary data into a variable and pass it through loadVars making the server think it's a file upload. Possible??? OR 4) Any other possibility I may have overlooked? Thanks for any help, -Carlos- _______________________________________________ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
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