Uploading a file with ASIFormDataRequest does not work - iphone

Question

I am using the ASIHTTPRequest framework trying to upload a file to my websever via iPhone.
Below is the code. As long as I don't use the setFile method, I get a 200 back from the server, so everthing is fine. As soon as I implement setFile, the server returns 0. I would expect a 401 or anything like this, as I could imagine that I deal with an authentication issue.
My server is an IIS, why I use the NTLM way in the request. Do I miss something?
NSInteger httpStatus;
NSString *httpResponseString;
NSError *httpRequestError;
NSArray *paths = [[[NSArray alloc] init] autorelease];
paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory , NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
NSString *filename = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:#"abiliator_basis_de_ar.xml"];
NSURL *myURL = [NSURL URLWithString: #"http://my.url.com/"];
ASIFormDataRequest *request = [ASIFormDataRequest requestWithURL:myURL];
[request setShouldPresentCredentialsBeforeChallenge:NO];
[request setUsername:#"myUserName"];
[request setPassword:#"myPassword"];
[request setDomain:#"myDomainName"];
[request setFile:[NSURL URLWithString:filename] forKey:#"xml"];
[request startSynchronous];
httpRequestError = [request error];
httpResponseString = [request responseString];
httpStatus = [request responseStatusCode];
if (!httpRequestError) {
httpStatus = [request responseStatusCode];
NSLog(#"Class %#, Method: %# - OK login and filetransfer successful '%i'", self.myClassName, NSStringFromSelector(_cmd), httpStatus);
}
else {
NSLog(#"Class %#, Method: %# - Error '%i' occurred sending the http request", self.myClassName, NSStringFromSelector(_cmd), httpStatus);
}
Yes the file exists, here the result from the ls:
rene-stegs-macbook-pro:~ renesteg$ ls -ltr '/Users/renesteg/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/5.1/Applications/417BD791-64BC-48D0-B519-F10C7F617E36/Documents/abiliator_basis_de_ar.xml'
-rw-r--r--# 1 renesteg staff 1062 22 Mai 13:44 /Users/renesteg/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/5.1/Applications/417BD791-64BC-48D0-B519-F10C7F617E36/Documents/abiliator_basis_de_ar.xml
And here the value of filename:
Filename string is: '/Users/renesteg/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/5.1/Applications/417BD791-64BC-48D0-B519-F10C7F617E36/Documents/abiliator_basis_de_ar.xml

Answer 1

You are doing something wrong while uploading file.
it need to like this
NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
request = [[[ASIFormDataRequest alloc] initWithURL:url] autorelease];
[request setRequestMethod:#"POST"];
[request setTimeOutSeconds:120];
[request setPostFormat:ASIMultipartFormDataPostFormat];
[request addRequestHeader:#"Content-Type" value:#"multipart/form-data"];
if ([fileManager fileExistsAtPath:filePath] == YES) {
[request setFile:filePath withFileName:#"test.xml" andContentType:#"xml" forKey:#"FieldName"];
}
Here file path need to set for fromdata request.
Hope this will work for you.

Answer 2

You should probably try usingsetData:forKey: and send the data of the xml file, example below..
.....
NSURL *myURL = [NSURL URLWithString: #"http://my.url.com/"];
ASIFormDataRequest *request = [ASIFormDataRequest requestWithURL:myURL];
[request setShouldPresentCredentialsBeforeChallenge:NO];
[request setUsername:#"myUserName"];
[request setPassword:#"myPassword"];
[request setDomain:#"myDomainName"];
[request setData:[NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:fileName] forKey:#"xml"];
[request startSynchronous];
.....
Also, you should probably make this an asynchronous request.

Answer 3

i think the error occurs because you should use:
[request setFile:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:filename] forKey:#"xml"];

Answer 4

Ok, the issue was between the line of Neels comment: missing PHP.
And this of course needs to be called in the URL, so the correct way to build the URL is:
NSURL *myURL = [NSURL URLWithString: #"http://my.url.com/upload.php"];
This way I got the mapping my iPhone httpRequest code and the PHP.
Here's the required PHP code:
<?php
$target = "upload/";
$target = $target . basename( $_FILES['xml']['name']) ;
$ok=1;
if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['xml']['tmp_name'], $target))
{
echo "The file ". basename( $_FILES['xml']['name']). " has been uploaded";
}
else {
echo "Error uploading". basename( $_FILES['xml']['name']). " occured";
}
?>