Thanks Olegk.
In order to override the values I have derived my own class from file
FilePart and StringPart. I could not find any other way as these members are
private in FilePart and StringPart classes
Thanks for help.
olegk wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 11:30 -0700, ghanchakkar wrote:
>> Please help me.
>> I building a bot and trying to upload file along with form fields. when
>> compare the request generated by httpclient with that of microsoft
>> browser,
>> I notice that httpclient is having following format after the header.
>> -------------------------------boundaryid
>> Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fieldname1"
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>>
>> value1
>> -------------------------------boundaryid
>> Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fieldname2"
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>>
>> value2
>> -------------------------------boundaryid
>> :
>> :
>>
>> But internet explorer generates request in following format
>> -------------------------------boundaryid
>> Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fieldname1"
>>
>> value1
>> -------------------------------boundaryid
>> Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fieldname2"
>>
>> value2
>> -------------------------------boundaryid
>> :
>> :
>>
>> Notice the Content-Type and Content-Transfer-Encoding fields are
>> populated
>> by HttpClient.
>> The webserver is not expecting these two fields
>
> Then the webserver is buggy.
>
>> and therefore throwing me an
>> error as it is not able to trace the value for the required formfield (I
>> guess it is poorly written server)
>>
>> How do I get rid of these extra two values while using httpclient
>> multipartentity.
>
> Set them to null.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Oleg
>
>
>
>> please see snippet of my code below
>>
>> Part[] parts = new Part[files.length + nvPairs.length];
>>
>> //setup form fields
>> for(int i = 0 ; i < nvPairs.length ; i++){
>> parts[i] = new StringPart(nvPairs[i].getName(),
>> nvPairs[i].getValue(),CHAR_SET);
>> }
>> //setup files
>> for(int i = nvPairs.length, j=0 ; j < files.length ; j++,i++){
>> File targetFile = new File(files[j].getValue());
>> parts[i] = new FilePart(files[j].getValue(), targetFile);
>> }
>>
>> post.setRequestEntity(new MultipartRequestEntity(parts,
>> post.getParams()));
>>
>> httpClient.getHttpConnectionManager().getParams().setConnectionTimeout(5000);
>>
>> statusCode = httpClient.executeMethod(post);
>>
>>
>>
>> Please help ASAP.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
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