I'm having a problem with <input type="file">.  On my laptop test 
environment (XP-Pro) I can get the file to upload, but the file is corrupt 
when it gets there--slightly larger!  On my server production enviroment (MS 
Small Business Server 2003) the file won't upload and the client gets a 
blank page in his browser, except for a cryptic error message:

     Read error : (5) Input/output error.

Is anyone using <input type="file"> successfully?  Can you think of anything 
I might try?

"Steve Woolstenhulme" <swoolstenhulme at gmail.com> wrote in
news:3ff40239$1158972b$1aca@news.alaska-software.com: 

> I'm having a problem with <input type="file">.  On my laptop test 
> environment (XP-Pro) I can get the file to upload, but the file is
> corrupt when it gets there--slightly larger!  On my server production
> enviroment (MS Small Business Server 2003) the file won't upload and
> the client gets a blank page in his browser, except for a cryptic
> error message: 
> 
>      Read error : (5) Input/output error.
> 
> Is anyone using <input type="file"> successfully?  Can you think of
> anything I might try?

What server are you using IIS or Xb2.NET?
If you use Xb2.NET, please have a look at the www_root\uploadfile.htm 
sample.

Best regards,
Boris Borzic

http://xb2.net
http://sqlexpress.net
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Steve Woolstenhulme wrote:

> I'm having a problem with <input type="file">.  On my laptop test 
> environment (XP-Pro) I can get the file to upload, but the file is corrupt 
> when it gets there--slightly larger! 

How do you do this eactly on the server side... AFAIK, out of the box WAA
does not support file uploads.

I have done it with Phil Ides WAAUPLOAD package, but I had to fix a few
things to get it work without problems.

regards
thomas

Are you and/or Phil willing to share?

> How do you do this eactly on the server side... AFAIK, out of the box WAA
> does not support file uploads.

It's supposed to.  The Help file has quite a bit of documentation on 
uploading files and how to get the file name and the file contents from the 
form.  The following is from the WAA Help file:

-----

If the value to be retrieved is of type file then the second element holds 
the name of the file. Use the method :getFile() in order to access the file 
contents. Note that the encoding of the form must have been specified as 
"multipart/form-data" then.

  :getFile( <cVarName> ) --> cFileContents

  This method retrieves the contents of a file uploaded to the WAA server. 
Use the method :getVar() to retrieve the name of the file. Note that the 
encoding of the form must have been specified as "multipart/form-data" in 
order to transfer the file contents.
  HTML code:

   <FORM ACTION="/cgi-bin/waa1gate.exe" METHOD=post

         ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data">

     <INPUT TYPE=hidden NAME="WAA_PACKAGE" VALUE="My_Dll">

     <INPUT TYPE=hidden NAME="WAA_FORM"    VALUE="My_Function">

     <INPUT TYPE=file   NAME="File1">

     <INPUT TYPE=submit VALUE="Caption">

   </FORM>

  PRG code:

   cFileName := oHTML:getVar( "File1" )

   IF ! Empty( cFileName )

     cContents := oHTML:getFile( "File1" )



      Todo: Process the contents of the file



   ENDIF

  :getVar( <cVarName> ) --> cValue | aValue | NIL

  The method retrieves the value of the VALUE= attribute as a character 
string. If more than one value was assigned to the value, then an array of 
character strings is returned. For example, the method is frequently used in 
Web applications based on the standard package-DLL when the name of a 
database file is to be determined. In this case, <cVarName> is the string 
"WAA_USE".
  If <cVarName> does not exist in the HTML page, the return value is NIL.
  HTML code:

   <INPUT TYPE=hidden NAME="WAA_USE" VALUE="customer.dbf">

  PRG code:

   cDbf := oHTML:getVar( "WAA_USE" )

   USE (cDbf)

If the value to be retrieved is of type file then the return value is the 
name of the file. Use the method :getFile() in order to access the file 
contents. Note that the encoding of the form must have been specified as 
"multipart/form-data" then.

> I have done it with Phil Ides WAAUPLOAD package, but I had to fix a few
> things to get it work without problems.
>
> regards
> thomas

Steve Woolstenhulme wrote:

> Are you and/or Phil willing to share?
> 
>> How do you do this eactly on the server side... AFAIK, out of the box WAA
>> does not support file uploads.
> 
> It's supposed to.  The Help file has quite a bit of documentation on 
> uploading files and how to get the file name and the file contents from the 
> form.  The following is from the WAA Help file:

Must be new - I'm still using 1.8x WAA... 

Thomas

Hallo Mr Braun,

Your WAA is up to date (almost 

Mr Woolstenhulme refers to a feature that was created in context of
a hotfix, insofar the WAA he is refering to was not released yet.

We are currently stay in contact with him in order to figure out what
happens in his case.

As stated in my message from September 15th 2008, we are planning to
release a package of the WAA right after the SL1 release. Then the
upload feature will be part of the feature set. The doc's snipped
Mr Woolstenhulme posted in his message might give an idea how this
will work.


Thomas Braun wrote:
> Steve Woolstenhulme wrote:
> 
>> Are you and/or Phil willing to share?
>>
>>> How do you do this eactly on the server side... AFAIK, out of the box WAA
>>> does not support file uploads.
>> It's supposed to.  The Help file has quite a bit of documentation on 
>> uploading files and how to get the file name and the file contents from the 
>> form.  The following is from the WAA Help file:
> 
> Must be new - I'm still using 1.8x WAA... 
> 
> Thomas

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  "Andreas Herdt" wrote: news:555c8d03$2bc6569e$556@news.alaska-software.com...
  Hallo Mr Braun,

  Your WAA is up to date (almost ;-)

  Mr Woolstenhulme refers to a feature that was created in context of
  a hotfix, insofar the WAA he is refering to was not released yet.

  We are currently stay in contact with him in order to figure out what
  happens in his case.

  As stated in my message from September 15th 2008, we are planning to
  release a package of the WAA right after the SL1 release. Then the
  upload feature will be part of the feature set. The doc's snipped
  Mr Woolstenhulme posted in his message might give an idea how this
  will work.


  Thomas Braun wrote:
  > Steve Woolstenhulme wrote:
  > 
  >> Are you and/or Phil willing to share?
  >>
  >>> How do you do this eactly on the server side... AFAIK, out of the box WAA
  >>> does not support file uploads.
  >> It's supposed to.  The Help file has quite a bit of documentation on 
  >> uploading files and how to get the file name and the file contents from the 
  >> form.  The following is from the WAA Help file:
  > 
  > Must be new - I'm still using 1.8x WAA... :-)
  > 
  > Thomas


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Alex Karnozgitsky wrote:

> Nice news about your plans with WAA. 
> BTW Are you planning add possibility to run WAA as service?

Even better would be to release WAA as open source to the community - then
we could do the "service"-part ourselves (wink, wink) )

Thomas

Andreas Herdt wrote:

> Mr Woolstenhulme refers to a feature that was created in context of
> a hotfix, insofar the WAA he is refering to was not released yet.

Thanks Andreas.

regards
thomas

Has a package of WAA been released that includes the upload feature as 
part of the feature set?

Andreas Herdt wrote:
> Hallo Mr Braun,
> 
> Your WAA is up to date (almost 
> 
> Mr Woolstenhulme refers to a feature that was created in context of
> a hotfix, insofar the WAA he is refering to was not released yet.
> 
> We are currently stay in contact with him in order to figure out what
> happens in his case.
> 
> As stated in my message from September 15th 2008, we are planning to
> release a package of the WAA right after the SL1 release. Then the
> upload feature will be part of the feature set. The doc's snipped
> Mr Woolstenhulme posted in his message might give an idea how this
> will work.
> 
> 
> Thomas Braun wrote:
>> Steve Woolstenhulme wrote:
>>
>>> Are you and/or Phil willing to share?
>>>
>>>> How do you do this eactly on the server side... AFAIK, out of the 
>>>> box WAA
>>>> does not support file uploads.
>>> It's supposed to.  The Help file has quite a bit of documentation on 
>>> uploading files and how to get the file name and the file contents 
>>> from the form.  The following is from the WAA Help file:
>>
>> Must be new - I'm still using 1.8x WAA... 
>>
>> Thomas
> 
>