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HTTP Request Boundary Property

Explains and demonstrates the HTTP request Boundary property. For multipart HTTP requests, Chilkat auto-generates a boundary string when the Boundary property is left unset (or empty). For example:

POST /something HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=------------090207000006060206010508
Host: domain
Content-Length: 378

--------------090207000006060206010508
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fileA"; filename="fileA.txt"
Content-Type: text/plain

This is the contents of file A
--------------090207000006060206010508
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fileB"; filename="fileB.txt"
Content-Type: text/plain

This is the contents of file B
--------------090207000006060206010508--

If the Boundary property is set, then Chilkat uses it. For example, if the Boundary property is set to "ABC123HELLOWORLD"

POST /something HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=ABC123HELLOWORLD
Host: domain
Content-Length: 318

--ABC123HELLOWORLD
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fileA"; filename="fileA.txt"
Content-Type: text/plain

This is the contents of file A
--ABC123HELLOWORLD
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fileB"; filename="fileB.txt"
Content-Type: text/plain

This is the contents of file B
--ABC123HELLOWORLD--

Xbase++

LOCAL oReq

oReq := CreateObject("Chilkat.HttpRequest")

oReq:HttpVerb := "POST"
oReq:Path := "/something"
oReq:ContentType := "multipart/form-data"

oReq:AddStringForUpload("fileA", "fileA.txt", "This is the contents of file A", "utf-8")
oReq:AddStringForUpload("fileB", "fileB.txt", "This is the contents of file B", "utf-8")

//  When the Boundary property is empty (has not yet been set)
//  Chilkat auto-generates a random boundary for the request.
//  This should almost always be sufficient.
//  For example, one can see the generated boundary here:
? oReq:GenerateRequestText()

//  If the Boundary property is set to a specific string, then the
//  request will use it:
oReq:Boundary := "ABC123HELLOWORLD"
? oReq:GenerateRequestText()

oReq:destroy()