Hi!

I'm currently developing an application that needs to perform a file upload and show the resulting web page on a new browser window.

I've been trying to using JExplorer to achieve it, but I still did not find any success with it.

I'm using a third party server, so I don't have access to the actual log files to try to understand what is going on. Nonetheless, I used a proxy to intercept successful (using the web page as initially intended) and unsucessful (using JExplorer on a Swing application) calls.

My current problem (in my understanding) is that even tough my "postData" string contains "Content-Type: multipart/form-data", the browser replaces it with "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded". I'm also failing to present a valid cookie (that I do not know if it is necessary or not, unless I clear out the postData string issue).

Here are the headers for the unsuccessful request:

POST <omitted>
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, application/xaml+xml, application/vnd.ms-xpsdocument, application/x-ms-xbap, application/x-ms-application, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, */*
Accept-Language: es
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
UA-CPU: x86
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; MDDR; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; FDM)
Host: <omitted>
Content-Length: 4873
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Pragma: no-cache
Proxy-Authorization: Basic <omitted>

And the headers for the successful request:

POST <omitted>
Host: <omitted>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091201 Firefox/3.5.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: es-es,es;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: <omitted>
Cookie: JSESSIONID=ef0dee8902b969562cdb4dfc44de02e592e02047c9d7abe59287450d23430e8f.e3uKch8KaheQe38KchiKbNeNaxz0; style=null
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------61822586228240
Content-Length: 4873

Have you ever been successful in automating a file upload POST request?

Is there any other way to achieve this other than using the navigate method?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Nuno Guerreiro