[resolved] POSTing a file to a website

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone!
I've got a task which I'd love to use TOS for but I can't for the life of me work out how to accomplish it.
There is a website (protected by apache basic auth) which requires me to POST a file (which happens to be a CSV). I can manage the first bit - getting the data, but I'm not sure about the second and third bits, namely forming this data into a CSV file and then using HTTP POST to send it to this other website.
For those that know Perl, here is a snippet of the code we have which is doing what I'd like TOS to do:

         
         my $ua = BrowserUA->new(
                 agent => "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1",
         );
         my $req = POST $url,
                 "Content-Type" => 'multipart/form-data',
                 "Content" => ,
                 ];

Has anyone got any hints that they can give me? I'm especially confused about the final bit of POSTing to the website as I can't see how to post a file (values aren't IN a file, I want to upload the actual file). I believe the content type above is making this happen, but I can't see how to do this in TOS.
Thanks in advance.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

I've solved this!!
The key was not to use tHttpRequest at all. The correct component to use is tFileFetch. Despite it's name, it can send a file too. Worked straight away, very simple.

[Anonymous]

Nice 🙂 But still I don't know why the tHttpRequest didn't work for you.

[Anonymous]

Yep, that is a mystery, and if I needed to POST the file as well as other things, I may well have been stuck. I might look into it one day if I get the time. For now though, I can get on with my project

[Anonymous]

Hi aiclara,
I need to to do the same thing as you did. Can you show me how to use tFileFetch instead of tHttpRequest?
Thanks.

[Anonymous]

You guysssssss, come on since when can you make a http request to a https URL. Haha lol your missing a whole  layer of encryption. If no one has figured it out after a difference of more than 3 years! Cheers.

[joe86]

@aiclara
Hey, this is a pretty old post. By any chance, do have the details of how to use tFileFetch to Upload/Post a file (from my local hard disk) to a web ( https://clientconn.sharefile.com/share/upload/r773a1b7922e44cca)