ios Upload Image and Text using HTTP POST

Question

Thanks for reading   I am new to iOS and I am trying to upload an Image and a text using multi-part form encoding in iOS    The curl equivalent is something like this  curl -F  param1 value1  -F  param2  testimage jpg   http   some ip address 5000 upload   The curl command above returns the expected correct response in JSON   Problem   I keep getting a HTTP 400 request which means I am doing something wrong while composing the HTTP POST Body    What I Did  For some reference  I tried  Flickr API iOS app  quot POST size too large  quot  and Objective C  How to upload image and text using HTTP POST   But  I keep getting a HTTP 400    I tried the ASIHttpRequest but had a different problem there  the callback never got called   But  I didn t investigate further on that since I ve heard the developer has stopped supporting the library  http   allseeing-i com  request release     Could someone please help me out

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I can show you an example of uploading a .txt file to a server with NSMutableURLRequest and NSURLSessionUploadTask with help of a php script.

-(void)uploadFileToServer : (NSString *) filePath
{
NSMutableURLRequest* request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://YourURL.com/YourphpScript.php"]];
[request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"]; 
[request addValue:@"File Name" forHTTPHeaderField:@"FileName"];
NSURLSessionConfiguration *defaultConfigObject = [NSURLSessionConfiguration defaultSessionConfiguration];
NSURLSession *defaultSession = [NSURLSession sessionWithConfiguration:defaultConfigObject];

NSURLSessionUploadTask* uploadTask = [defaultSession uploadTaskWithRequest:request fromFile:[NSURL URLWithString:filePath] completionHandler:^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *error)
                                      {
                                          NSHTTPURLResponse *httpResponse = (NSHTTPURLResponse *) response;
                                          if (error || [httpResponse statusCode]!=202)
                                          {

                                              //Error
                                          }
                                          else
                                          {
                                             //Success
                                          }
                                          [defaultSession invalidateAndCancel];
                                      }];
[uploadTask resume];
}

php Script

<?php 
$request_body = @file_get_contents('php://input');
foreach (getallheaders() as $name => $value) 
{
    if ($FileName=="FileName") 
    {
        $header=$value;
        break;
    }
}   
$uploadedDir = "directory/";
@mkdir($uploadedDir);
file_put_contents($uploadedDir."/".$FileName.".txt",
$request_body.PHP_EOL, FILE_APPEND);
header('X-PHP-Response-Code: 202', true, 202);  
?>

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Use AFNetworking  Put other parameters in the parameter dictionary and append the image data in form data     Upload Image Using AFNetworking  - BOOL uploadImageAFNetworkingWithURL  NSString   path andImage  UIImage   image andImageNameWithExtension  NSString   strImageName andParamDict  NSDictionary   dictParam andKeyForUploadingImage  NSString   keyUplaodImg       NSData  imageData   UIImageJPEGRepresentation image  0 5       NSString  strError   EMPTY STRING       AFHTTPRequestOperationManager  manager    AFHTTPRequestOperationManager manager        manager requestSerializer    AFJSONRequestSerializer serializer        manager POST path parameters dictParam constructingBodyWithBlock   id lt AFMultipartFormData gt  formData              formData appendPartWithFileData imageData name keyUplaodImg fileName strImageName mimeType   image jpeg           success   AFHTTPRequestOperation  operation  id responseObject            NSLog   success        responseObject         failure   AFHTTPRequestOperation  operation  NSError  error            NSLog   error        error           NSLog   Response        operation            strError stringByAppendingString STR ERR MESSAGE               if strError length gt 0           return NO       else          return YES

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Here is a Swift version   Note that if you do not want to send form data it is still important to send the empty form boundary   Flask in particular expects form data followed by file data and will not populate request files without the first boundary     let composedData   NSMutableData         Set content type header   let BoundaryConstant    --------------------------3d74a90a3bfb8696    let contentType    multipart form-data  boundary   BoundaryConstant     request setValue contentType  forHTTPHeaderField   Content-Type         Empty form boundary   composedData appendData  --  BoundaryConstant  r n  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding          Build multipart form to send image   composedData appendData  --  BoundaryConstant  r n  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding      composedData appendData  Content-Disposition  form-data  name   file    filename   image jpg   r n  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding      composedData appendData  Content-Type  image jpeg r n r n  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding      composedData appendData rawData     composedData appendData   r n  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding      composedData appendData  --  BoundaryConstant -- r n  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding       request HTTPBody   composedData       Get content length   let length      composedData length     request setValue length  forHTTPHeaderField   Content-Length

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XJones  answer worked like charm   But he didn t mentioned declared variables  params  BoundaryConstant and requestURL  So  i thought of posting that part as an add-on to his post  so that it may help others in future      Dictionary that holds post parameters  You can set your post parameters that your server accepts or programmed to accept  NSMutableDictionary   params     NSMutableDictionary alloc  init     params setObject  NSString stringWithString   1 0   forKey  NSString stringWithString   ver       params setObject  NSString stringWithString   en   forKey  NSString stringWithString   lan       params setObject  NSString stringWithFormat    d   userId  forKey  NSString stringWithString   userId       params setObject  NSString stringWithFormat       title  forKey  NSString stringWithString   title         the boundary string   a random string  that will not repeat in post data  to separate post data fields  NSString  BoundaryConstant    NSString stringWithString   ----------V2ymHFg03ehbqgZCaKO6jy        string constant for the post parameter  file   My server uses this name   file   Your s may differ  NSString  FileParamConstant    NSString stringWithString   file        the server url to which the image  or the media  is uploaded  Use your server url here NSURL  requestURL    NSURL URLWithString          As i mentioned earler  this is not an answer by itself  just an addon to XJones  post

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here s the working swift code translated from the code provided by  xjones  Thanks alot for your help mate  Yours was the only way that worked for me   I used this method to send 1 image and a another parameter to a webservice made in asp net                        let params   NSMutableDictionary                        let boundaryConstant     ----------V2y2HFg03eptjbaKO0j1                       let file1ParamConstant    file1                      params setObject device id   forKey   deviceID                        let requestUrl   NSURL string     siteurl    port  FileUpload Upload                        let request   NSMutableURLRequest                        request cachePolicy   NSURLRequestCachePolicy ReloadIgnoringLocalCacheData                     request HTTPShouldHandleCookies false                     request timeoutInterval   30                     request HTTPMethod    POST                       let contentType    multipart form-data  boundary   boundaryConstant                        request setValue contentType  forHTTPHeaderField   Content-Type                        let body   NSMutableData                           parameters                      for param in params                        body appendData  --  boundaryConstant  r n   dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding                         body appendData  Content-Disposition  form-data  name     param    r n r n   dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding                        body appendData    param value  r n   dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding                                                  images                         image begin                     body appendData  --  boundaryConstant  r n  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding                         body appendData  Content-Disposition  form-data  name     file1ParamConstant     filename   image jpg   r n  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding                        body appendData  Content-Type  image jpeg r n r n  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding                         body appendData passportImageData                      body appendData   r n  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding                            image end                        body appendData  --  boundaryConstant -- r n  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding                         request HTTPBody    body                     let postLength      body length                       request setValue postLength  forHTTPHeaderField   Content-Length                       request URL   requestUrl                      var serverResponse   NSString                        let task   NSURLSession sharedSession   dataTaskWithRequest request                            data  response  error in                          if error    nil                                                       print  error   error                                return                                                     print  response     response                              let responseString   NSString data  data   encoding  NSUTF8StringEncoding                          print  responseString     responseString                             serverResponse   responseString                                                           task resume

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For http post image and username and password sending through post     method   NSString  str  NSString stringWithFormat     registration php  appdel baseUrl    NSString  urlString    NSString stringWithFormat       str     NSMutableURLRequest  request     NSMutableURLRequest alloc  init     request setURL  NSURL URLWithString urlString      request setHTTPMethod   POST     NSMutableData  body    NSMutableData data    NSString  boundary     ---------------------------14737809831466499882746641449    NSString  contentType    NSString stringWithFormat   multipart form-data  boundary     boundary     request addValue contentType forHTTPHeaderField    Content-Type       body appendData   NSString stringWithFormat   --   r n   boundary  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding      body appendData    Content-Disposition  form-data  name   file    filename   a jpg   r n  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding      body appendData    Content-Type  application octet-stream r n r n  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding      body appendData  NSData dataWithData imgData      body appendData     r n  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding          parameter username    body appendData   NSString stringWithFormat   --   r n   boundary  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding      body appendData   NSString stringWithFormat   Content-Disposition  form-data  name   username   r n r n   dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding       body appendData  userName text dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding      body appendData     r n  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding           parameter token   body appendData   NSString stringWithFormat   --   r n   boundary  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding      body appendData   NSString stringWithFormat   Content-Disposition  form-data  name   email   r n r n   dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding       body appendData  eMail text dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding      body appendData     r n  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding          parameter method   body appendData   NSString stringWithFormat   --   r n   boundary  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding      body appendData   NSString stringWithFormat   Content-Disposition  form-data  name   pass   r n r n   dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding       body appendData  passWord text dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding      body appendData     r n  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding         parameter method  NSLog       countryCode     body appendData   NSString stringWithFormat   --   r n   boundary  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding      body appendData   NSString stringWithFormat   Content-Disposition  form-data  name   country   r n r n   dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding       body appendData  countryCode dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding      body appendData     r n  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding         close form   body appendData   NSString stringWithFormat   --  -- r n   boundary  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding          setting the body of the post to the reqeust   request setHTTPBody body      NSData  returnData    NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest request returningResponse nil error nil       NSString  returnString     NSString alloc  initWithData returnData encoding NSUTF8StringEncoding    NSDictionary  dict  NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData returnData options NSJSONReadingMutableLeaves error nil    Nslog       dict

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Here is my similar network kit library for uploading files as multipart form   WebRequest  request     WebRequest alloc  initWithPath      documents create json        optional attributes request delegate   delegate  request notificationName     NotificationDocumentUploaded   request queue   myQueue   NSMutableData  body    NSMutableData data   NSString  boundary     TeslaSchoolProjectFormBoundary     body appendPartName   document name   value   Test  boundary boundary    body appendPartName   document description   value   This is a description  boundary boundary    body appendPartName   document category   value   Drama  boundary boundary        body appendPartName   commit  value   Save  boundary boundary   NSData  fileData     NSData alloc  initWithContentsOfURL someFileURL    body appendPartFile fileName name   document file   data fileData mimeType mimeType boundary boundary    body appendData   NSString stringWithFormat   --  -- r n   boundary  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding      request setHTTPBody body    NSString  bodyLength    NSString stringWithFormat    lu   unsigned long  body length     request addValue bodyLength forHTTPHeaderField   Content-Length     request setValue  NSString stringWithFormat   multipart form-data  charset utf-8  boundary      boundary  forHTTPHeaderField   Content-Type         optional values  request addValue   gzip deflate sdch  forHTTPHeaderField   Accept-Encoding     request addValue   max-age 0  forHTTPHeaderField   Cache-Control     request addValue   text html application xhtml xml application xml q 0 9 image webp     q 0 8  forHTTPHeaderField   Accept     request addValue   en-US en q 0 8 hr q 0 6 it q 0 4 sk q 0 2 sl q 0 2 sr q 0 2  forHTTPHeaderField   Accept-Language       request setHTTPMethod   POST     WebRequestProcessor process request     Use the delegate for notifying about uploading progress   Use the notificationName for notifying when request has finished   Use the queue for adding this request into your operation queue so it will be processed in right time

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use below code  it will work fine for me     void  sendHttpRequestWithArrayContent  NSMutableArray    array  ToUrl  NSString    strUrl withHttpMethod  NSString    strMethod  withBlock  dictionary block   if    Utility isConnectionAvailableWithAlert TRUE          Utility showAlertWithTitle     andMessage   No internet connection available        NSMutableURLRequest  request     NSMutableURLRequest alloc  init      request setURL  NSURL URLWithString strUrl     request setTimeoutInterval 120 0    request setHTTPMethod strMethod    NSString  boundary     ---------------------------14737809831466499882746641449   NSString  contentType    NSString stringWithFormat   multipart form-data  boundary     boundary    request addValue contentType forHTTPHeaderField    Content-Type     NSMutableData  body   NSMutableData alloc init    for  NSMutableDictionary  dict in array        if    dict valueForKey   dict allKeys objectAtIndex 0   isKindOfClass  NSString class                   body appendData  self contentDataFormStringWithValue  dict valueForKey   dict allKeys objectAtIndex 0   withKey   dict allKeys objectAtIndex 0               else if    dict valueForKey   dict allKeys objectAtIndex 0   isKindOfClass  UIImage class                   body appendData  self contentDataFormImage  dict valueForKey   dict allKeys objectAtIndex 0   withKey   dict allKeys objectAtIndex 0               else if    dict valueForKey   dict allKeys objectAtIndex 0   isKindOfClass  NSMutableDictionary class                   body appendData  self contentDataFormStringWithValue  dict valueForKey   dict allKeys objectAtIndex 0   withKey   dict allKeys objectAtIndex 0               else               NSMutableData  dataBody    NSMutableData data            dataBody appendData   NSString stringWithFormat    r n--   r n  boundary  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding             dataBody appendData   NSString stringWithFormat   Content-Disposition  form-data  name         filename   ipodfile jpg   r n    image   dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding             dataBody appendData    Content-Type  application octet-stream r n r n  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding              dataBody appendData  dict valueForKey   dict allKeys objectAtIndex 0               body appendData dataBody             body appendData   NSString stringWithFormat    r n--  -- r n  boundary  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding      request setHTTPBody body     NSURLConnection sendAsynchronousRequest request queue  NSOperationQueue mainQueue  completionHandler   NSURLResponse  response  NSData  data  NSError  connectionError          if   data             NSMutableDictionary  dict     NSMutableDictionary alloc  init              dict setObject  NSString stringWithFormat       SomethingWentWrong  forKey   error             block dict            return               NSError  error   nil         NSString  str   NSString alloc  initWithData data encoding NSUTF8StringEncoding        NSDictionary  dict    NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData data options NSJSONReadingAllowFragments error  amp error        NSLog       dict        if   dict             NSMutableDictionary  dict     NSMutableDictionary alloc  init             dict setObject ServerResponceError forKey   error             block dict            return               block dict              NSMutableData   contentDataFormStringWithValue  NSString  strValue  withKey  NSString    key   NSString  boundary     ---------------------------14737809831466499882746641449   NSMutableData  data   NSMutableData alloc init    data appendData   NSString stringWithFormat    r n--   r n  boundary  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding     data appendData   NSString stringWithFormat   Content-Disposition  form-data  name        r n r n  key  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding     data appendData   NSString stringWithFormat       strValue  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding        title return data       NSMutableData   contentDataFormImage  UIImage  image withKey   NSString    key   NSString  boundary     ---------------------------14737809831466499882746641449   NSMutableData  body    NSMutableData data    body appendData   NSString stringWithFormat    r n--   r n  boundary  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding     body appendData   NSString stringWithFormat   Content-Disposition  form-data  name         filename   ipodfile jpg   r n  key  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding     body appendData    Content-Type  application octet-stream r n r n  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding    NSData  imageData UIImageJPEGRepresentation image  0 40    body appendData imageData    return body

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Here s code from my app to post an image to our web server      Dictionary that holds post parameters  You can set your post parameters that your server accepts or programmed to accept  NSMutableDictionary   params     NSMutableDictionary alloc  init     params setObject  NSString stringWithString   1 0   forKey  NSString stringWithString   ver       params setObject  NSString stringWithString   en   forKey  NSString stringWithString   lan       params setObject  NSString stringWithFormat    d   userId  forKey  NSString stringWithString   userId       params setObject  NSString stringWithFormat       title  forKey  NSString stringWithString   title         the boundary string   a random string  that will not repeat in post data  to separate post data fields  NSString  BoundaryConstant    NSString stringWithString   ----------V2ymHFg03ehbqgZCaKO6jy        string constant for the post parameter  file   My server uses this name   file   Your s may differ  NSString  FileParamConstant    NSString stringWithString   file        the server url to which the image  or the media  is uploaded  Use your server url here NSURL  requestURL    NSURL URLWithString            create request NSMutableURLRequest  request     NSMutableURLRequest alloc  init                                        request setCachePolicy NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringLocalCacheData    request setHTTPShouldHandleCookies NO    request setTimeoutInterval 30    request setHTTPMethod   POST        set Content-Type in HTTP header NSString  contentType    NSString stringWithFormat   multipart form-data  boundary      BoundaryConstant    request setValue contentType forHTTPHeaderField    Content-Type        post body NSMutableData  body    NSMutableData data       add params  all params are strings  for  NSString  param in  params         body appendData   NSString stringWithFormat   --   r n   BoundaryConstant  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding         body appendData   NSString stringWithFormat   Content-Disposition  form-data  name        r n r n   param  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding         body appendData   NSString stringWithFormat      r n     params objectForKey param   dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding          add image data NSData  imageData   UIImageJPEGRepresentation imageToPost  1 0   if  imageData         body appendData   NSString stringWithFormat   --   r n   BoundaryConstant  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding         body appendData   NSString stringWithFormat   Content-Disposition  form-data  name         filename   image jpg   r n   FileParamConstant  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding         body appendData   NSString stringWithString   Content-Type  image jpeg r n r n   dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding         body appendData imageData        body appendData   NSString stringWithFormat    r n   dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding        body appendData   NSString stringWithFormat   --  -- r n   BoundaryConstant  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding        setting the body of the post to the reqeust  request setHTTPBody body       set the content-length NSString  postLength    NSString stringWithFormat    lu   unsigned long   body length     request setValue postLength forHTTPHeaderField   Content-Length        set URL  request setURL requestURL

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Upload image with form data using NSURLConnection class in Swift 2 2       func uploadImage            let imageData   UIImagePNGRepresentation UIImage named   dexter jpg              if imageData    nil              let str    https   staging mywebsite com V2 9 uploadfile              let request   NSMutableURLRequest URL  NSURL string str                request HTTPMethod    POST               let boundary   NSString format   ---------------------------14737809831466499882746641449                let contentType   NSString format   multipart form-data  boundary     boundary              request addValue contentType as String  forHTTPHeaderField   Content-Type                let body   NSMutableData                   append image data to body             body appendData NSString format    r n--   r n   boundary  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding                body appendData NSString format  Content-Disposition  form-data  name   file    filename   img jpg    r n   dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding                body appendData NSString format   Content-Type  application octet-stream r n r n   dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding                body appendData imageData               body appendData NSString format    r n--   r n   boundary  dataUsingEncoding NSUTF8StringEncoding                 request HTTPBody   body              do                   let returnData   try NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest request  returningResponse  nil                  let returnString   NSString data  returnData  encoding  NSUTF8StringEncoding                  print  returnString     returnString                               catch let  error as NSError                   print error description                                  Note  Always use sendAsynchronousRequest method instead of sendSynchronousRequest for uploading downloading data to avoid blocking main thread  Here I used sendSynchronousRequest for testing purpose only

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