On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Robert Vogel <vogel(a)hallowelt.biz> wrote: Are you using a client that generates a MIME multipart POST request for you, or are you doing that yourself? If you're generating one yourself, you can simply use the Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 header to tell the web server that the file is base64-encoded. If you're using a library or client that builds an HTTP request for you, you'll probably have to decode the base64 encoding and hand the raw file contents to the library/client. Roan

Roan, Brad, thanks for the quick reply. A few words about the use case: my colleague has got a java applet that generates an image and provides this image as base64 encoded string via a javascript interface. His javascript code grabs this string and uses the "FormMultipart" class from Brion Vibbers SVGEdit extension (modules/ext.svgedit.formmultipart.js) to send a request to the MediaWiki API. The "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64" is set. The file that is created in the MediaWiki repo is corrupted. So long, thanks for the hints. We will keep them in mind. --- Robert Vogel Social Web Technologien Softwareentwicklung Hallo Welt! - Medienwerkstatt GmbH ______________________________ Untere Bachgasse 15 93047 Regensburg Tel. +49 (0) 941 - 66 0 80 - 198 Fax +49 (0) 941 - 66 0 80 - 189 www.hallowelt.biz vogel(a)hallowelt.biz Sitz: Regensburg Amtsgericht: Regensburg Handelsregister: HRB 10467 E.USt.Nr.: DE 253050833 Geschäftsführer: Anja Ebersbach, Markus Glaser, Dr. Richard Heigl, Radovan Kubani -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: mediawiki-api-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-api-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von Brad Jorsch Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. Februar 2012 18:00 An: MediaWiki API announcements & discussion Betreff: Re: [Mediawiki-api] API: Fileupload with base64 encoded data On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 05:22:39PM +0100, Robert Vogel wrote: Since HTTP POSTs may contain binary data, you can send the file without any special encoding. That would usually be the best thing to do. Theoretically, if you really wanted to base64-encode it you could include a "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64" header in the MIME part for the file data.[1] But PHP doesn't handle this correctly,[2] so in practice you'll probably need to use 8bit or binary encodings instead. [1] See RFC 2388 section 3. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2388.txt [2] https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=48219 _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api