Upload file and string at the same time

Question

I have successfully been able to upload files from Android to my server. I followed this tutorial and it works with no problem. Now I need to also send a string along with the file that will be added to the file name once it is uploaded. For example:

Upload my file - myFile.mp3

Upload my string = "|myString"

The file needs to be stored on my server as "myFile.mp3|myString".

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm just not quite sure where to place the string to upload it and how to retrieve it in the PHP code.

Look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7037717/upload-an-image-and-audio-in-one-request-in-android/7038888#7038888 .. — user370305, Aug 24 '12 at 06:08

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 24 '12 at 06:04

I don't believe this is possible; you can only have one content-type in the header, file, or basic text (or a bunch of other things, but there are the two you're talking about). You can, however, make two seperate posts, or make one post containing bytes of the file and a string (paramater post, application www-x-form-urlencoded)

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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Try uploading using multipart/form-data POST request, you can include other data in headers.

Check this post : Android send a image and save url

edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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answered Aug 24 '12 at 06:10

Eldhose M Babu

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 24 '12 at 06:23

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If it is absolutely unavoidable, you can put string in Request header

answered Aug 24 '12 at 06:23

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 24 '12 at 23:10

After looking around some more and trying different things, it finally works. I added this to my java code:

dos.writeBytes(twoHyphens + boundary + lineEnd); 
dos.writeBytes("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"mystring\"" + lineEnd + lineEnd);
dos.writeBytes("myString" + lineEnd);

and this to my PHP code to get the string:

$myString="";       

if(isset($_POST['mystring'])) {
    $attachToFile = $_POST['myString']; 
}

Upload file and string at the same time

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