Unable to perform simple upload from simple HTML page

[Branislav Vidovic]

Hello guys! I am trying to achieve a simple upload of a file and a text parameter from a html form. The html page is deployed on jboss 4.2.3.GA (but the result is the same even if you put it anywhere outside the server, etc. on your C drive). My POST request always seems to be empty. I am executing request in Firefox 4.0 browser. Here is the web page:

Testing

Use the form to call webservice

	Picture:   
	Name:   

I am using HttpFox utility in Firefox to examine my request. The POST data always seems to be empty so the parameters in the servlet are also empty. If i change the enctype="multipart/form-data" to enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" then i can get all parameters, but they are only strings. For name parameter this is ok, but for file i just get the file name string and that is not ok ;) I need a file. So does anyone has idea how is this accomplished? I am using jboss RESTeasy web service to read the request. But jboss resteasy webservices are just servlets in my opinion. But any way, the data does not even get into the request. So that is the main problem. The client does not even send it.

[Gerben Jongerius]

I don't know exactly what the plugin you use does with the post data, but remember that a multipart/form-data POST just puts everything in the body of the request sent to the server. So it is possible the plugin you use just doesn't understand this type of form submit. I just verified using Fiddler and the POST data should be visible just fine as long as you look at the RAW data being sent to the server.