Transfer PDF between servers using HTTP POST

[ToddWW]

Hello All. I've been working on this for a few days now, scouring the internet and this site for some solutions. I need to be able to move a PDF from one ASP server to another ASP server (not client to server) using HTTP POST. FTP is not an option becuase I need a synchronous transaction with an HTTP response from the receiving server. Here's what I have so far.

SENDING SERVER

fileName = "c:\temp\testread.pdf"
Set objFso = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set theFile = objFso.OpenTextFile(fileName,1,False,0)
strFile = theFile.ReadAll
theFile.Close
Set theFile = Nothing
Set objFso = Nothing

Set objHttp = Server.CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttprequest.5")
objHttp.Open "POST","[URL unfurl="true"]http://myserver.com/portal/testfiles/test2.asp",False[/URL]
objHttp.Send(strFile)
Response.Write objHttp.ResponseText
Set objHttp = Nothing

RECEIVING SERVER

binData = Request.BinaryRead(Request.TotalBytes)
FOR i = 1 TO LenB(binData)
	strFile = strFile + Chr(AscB(MidB(binData,i,1)))
NEXT
		
fileName = "c:\temp\testresult2.pdf"
Set objFso = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set theFile = objFso.CreateTextFile(fileName,True,False)
theFile.Write(strFile)
theFile.Close
Set theFile = Nothing
Set objFso = Nothing

This works great with text files. But when I try it with a PDF, most of the file makes it fine, but parts of it are corrupted. I've tried different binary conversions, request header options, etc.. But I can't find a single simple solution. I feel there's gotta be something simple out there.

Thanks in advance.

ToddWW

 

[ChrisHirst]

http://aspuploader.com/

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[ToddWW]

Thanks Chris. This looks like it is designed for client to server file uploads. Any idea on server to server using a server object like winhttprequest?

 

[ChrisHirst]

You build a HTTP post request on server A which is the client using the server XMLHTTP Object.

http://www.bestcodingpractices.com/asp_post_data_to_url-23.html

Basically the same as an AJAX POST request.


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