Accessing the PostedFile object of a multipart/form-data post

[Abe Simpson]

Hi all.

I am using a 3rd party ActiveX control to upload files to the web server
using the multipart/form-data format (described in RFC 1867). In regular
ASP, I have to use another 3rd party component, such as AspUpload, to
capture the files. In .NET, we have PostedFile, but I can' figure out how to
use it in this scenario.

There are no <INPUT TYPE="FILE" RUNAT="Server"> items to work with, nor are
there any <form>'s. All I have is a multipart/form-data stream, and the file
items are named FILE001, FILE002, etc. (there can be more than one). If I
handle this post from a Page_Load( Object sender, EventArgs e) function, how
to do I get those file items to be represented by PostedFile objects?

Thanks in advance.

-- Abe

[Bruce Barker]

look at the HttpRequest.Files collection.

note: asp.net loads the files into memory, so you may have to bump up the
workersize and maxrequestlength.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)

"Abe Simpson" <ab*@simpson.com> wrote in message
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Hi all.

I am using a 3rd party ActiveX control to upload files to the web server
using the multipart/form-data format (described in RFC 1867). In regular
ASP, I have to use another 3rd party component, such as AspUpload, to
capture the files. In .NET, we have PostedFile, but I can' figure out how
to use it in this scenario.

There are no <INPUT TYPE="FILE" RUNAT="Server"> items to work with, nor
are there any <form>'s. All I have is a multipart/form-data stream, and
the file items are named FILE001, FILE002, etc. (there can be more than
one). If I handle this post from a Page_Load( Object sender, EventArgs e)
function, how to do I get those file items to be represented by PostedFile
objects?

Thanks in advance.

-- Abe

[Abe Simpson]

Thanks Bruce, that worked great.

-- Abe
"Bruce Barker" <br******************@safeco.com> wrote in message
news:OP***************@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...

look at the HttpRequest.Files collection.

note: asp.net loads the files into memory, so you may have to bump up the
workersize and maxrequestlength.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)

"Abe Simpson" <ab*@simpson.com> wrote in message
news:e6***************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Hi all.

I am using a 3rd party ActiveX control to upload files to the web server
using the multipart/form-data format (described in RFC 1867). In regular
ASP, I have to use another 3rd party component, such as AspUpload, to
capture the files. In .NET, we have PostedFile, but I can' figure out how
to use it in this scenario.

There are no <INPUT TYPE="FILE" RUNAT="Server"> items to work with, nor
are there any <form>'s. All I have is a multipart/form-data stream, and
the file items are named FILE001, FILE002, etc. (there can be more than
one). If I handle this post from a Page_Load( Object sender, EventArgs e)
function, how to do I get those file items to be represented by
PostedFile objects?

Thanks in advance.

-- Abe