Http send file

We're going to create 3 new entries in our app. Now that we've updated our app config, let's go ahead and create our routes I'd recommend using a config file for this which you can read more about here.

As we haven't set a variable rule, Flask will default to string and not allow any slashes. If you try a filename that doesn't exist, you'll get a Not Found error in your browser. You'll notice these 2 routes are very similar to the first, with the addition of the filename variable. Both router are identical apart from the addition of their corresponding file extensions in the filename variable, where we've just used an f string to append the extension to the filename.

We've hard coded the extension this way as we're only allowing that type of file extension from their given route. You could of course omit it and ask the user to provide the file extension too.

You may want a nested directory structure within your trusted base directory, where users can provide a path to a file in the URL to retrieve a file. Let's say reports is our trusted base directory, containing several sub-directories and files, like so:. Abdul Not sure I understand your question; wanna shoot me an email? Show 3 more comments.

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Debu Shinobi Debu Shinobi 1, 11 11 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges. Bit Late but express has a helper for this to make life easier. Awais Ayub Awais Ayub 1 1 silver badge 12 12 bronze badges. In case if you need to send gzipped on the fly file using Node. Konstantin Chemshirov Konstantin Chemshirov 21 3 3 bronze badges. Please don't post only code as an answer, but also provide an explanation what your code does and how it solves the problem of the question.

Answers with an explanation are usually more helpful and of better quality, and are more likely to attract upvotes. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. If you don't want to use forms and you are only interested in uploading one single file this is the easiest way to include your file in the request.

So let 's run our Java Code, open up test. Well I am not surprised to see the characters 9ie because we told Java to print them treating them as UTF-8 characters.

You may as well choose to read them as raw bytes.. After that comes the HTTP Body, where meta and contents of the file we uploaded actually can be seen. An HTTP message may have a body of data sent after the header lines. In a response, this is where the requested resource is returned to the client the most common use of the message body , or perhaps explanatory text if there's an error.

In a request, this is where user-entered data or uploaded files are sent to the server. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. How does HTTP file upload work?

Ask Question. Asked 10 years ago. Active 1 year, 8 months ago. Viewed k times. I just would like the know the internal workings of the HTTP when sending a file. Mark Amery k 67 67 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. I have not used a sniffer in a while but if you want to see what is being sent in your request since it is to the server it is a request sniff it. This question is too broad. SO is more for specific programming questions.

You can even build up your own test requests to see how they post. Either 1. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. ReadAsStringAsync ; txtbox. I will be grateful explain how do that. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Update: This link to the bug no longer works since the have retired Microsoft Connect. Fran Fran 6, 1 1 gold badge 22 22 silver badges 35 35 bronze badges. I don't know the requirements for the site you are trying to post to.

This also applies to Xamarin as of Xamarin 7. NET Framework 4. I wonder if using. NET Standard 1.