Android Question Request URI Too Long

[ilan]

hi

i am updating a mysql db using PHP Get request. i am using httpjob.Download2 with key/value parameters. everything work fine but if i want to upload an image converted to base64 i am getting this error:

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*** Service (starter) Create ***
** Service (starter) Start **
** Activity (main) Create (first time) **
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Call B4XPages.GetManager.LogEvents = True to enable logging B4XPages events.
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ResponseError. Reason: Request-URI Too Long, Response: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>414 Request-URI Too Long</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Request-URI Too Long</h1>
<p>The requested URL's length exceeds the capacity
limit for this server.<br />
</p>
<p>Additionally, a 414 Request-URI Too Long
error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.</p>
</body></html>
error uploading user

i need to mention that i cannot use B4j Server tool because this is a shared hosting so i have to use PHP and i also DON'T want to use FTP and upload the image. i know it is a better approach but because it is a small image (just an avatar of around 10kb) i would like to stay with sql db only and no ftp upload.
what could i do to archive it? it seems like there is a limit of the length of the url that my hosting allows. is there another way the get around this?
i was thinking of using BLOB instead and upload the image as a byte array using POST request. what do you think?

 

[DonManfred]

You should use PostMultipart and handle the fileupload correctly in PHP.
You are not limited to any amount of data using POST-Requests

A GET-Request can only have a limited amount of data.

If you are using the GET method, you are limited to a maximum of 2,048 characters, minus the number of characters in the actual path. However, the POST method is not limited by the size of the URL for submitting name/value pairs. These pairs are transferred in the header and not in the URL.

 

[ilan]

You should use PostMultipart and handle the fileupload correctly in PHP

thanks @DonManfred do you have maybe an example how such a request should look like in php and b4a?

 

[DonManfred]

do you have maybe an example how such a request should look like in php and b4a?

Multipart Fileupload b4A->PHP