Re: Using POST to send bitmap image with Java

From:
"Kenneth P. Turvey" <kt-usenet@squeakydolphin.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
30 May 2008 22:55:48 GMT
Message-ID:
<484085f4$0$16920$ec3e2dad@news.usenetmonster.com>
On Fri, 30 May 2008 20:53:12 +0000, Dave Miller wrote:

Dexter wrote:

In one of my Graphing programs written in Java, I am trying to send a
graphics image (.bmp) to HttpModule on the same server that hosts the
graphing applet.

I found some code on internet that helped me post text data to the
module.

Can someone suggest how I may post the graphics image binary data using
POST method


URL url = new URL("http://www.your-server.com"); HttpURLConnection
connection = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
connection.setDoInput(true);
connection.setDoOutput(true);
connection.connect();
DataOutputStream out =
new DataOutputStream(connection.getOutputStream()); // use one of write
methods of out
out.flush();
out.close();


I'm actually in the process of doing this right now. I'm going to be
posting the image to a URL that is a PHP script. When I was looking at
this I thought that this really made more sense to use a PUT method to
post the image, but the guy working on the PHP side insisted on using a
POST method.

Is there a reason that POST would be selected over PUT for this
application? Are there reasons to go with PUT here?

Thanks.

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