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httpUpload

Version 26.1.9568

httpUpload

Issue an HTTP POST request using multipart/form-data to upload files to an API endpoint compliant with RFC 1867.

Required Parameters

  • url: The URL to which the POST request is issued.
  • file:*: The path to a file to upload. The format of this attribute must include a value after the colon and a value parameter (see the example below).

Optional Parameters

  • authentication: Used to set a manually generated authorization header, such as a bearer token.
  • authscheme: The authorization mechanism to use. Only relevant if user and password are provided. Allowed values are BASIC, DIGEST, NONE, and NTLM. The default is BASIC.
    • user: The username to authenticate with if the authscheme parameter is set to something other than NONE.
    • password: The password to authenticate with if the authscheme parameter is set to something other than NONE.
  • charset: The charset of the exchanged/transferred data. The default is UTF-8.
  • client_id: The client Id. Applicable for OAuth 1.0 only.
  • client_secret: The client secret. Applicable for OAuth 1.0 only.
  • cookie:*: Any cookies to add to the request.
  • filename:*: Used to override the filename field of the form data set by the file attribute.
  • firewall_port: The firewall port number.
  • firewall_server: The firewall IP address or host name.
    • firewall_user: The user Id used to authenticate with the firewall.
    • firewall_password: The password used to authenticate with the firewall.
  • firewall_type: The firewall type. Allowed values are NONE, TUNNEL, SOCKS4, and SOCKS5. The default is NONE.
  • followredirects: Whether or not to follow HTTP redirects. Allowed values are TRUE or FALSE. The default is TRUE.
  • form:*: Form input variable data to include in the POST.
  • header:name#: The name for each custom header to pass with the request.
  • header:value#: The value for each custom header to pass with the request.
  • httpversion: Version of the HTTP protocol to use. Allowed values are 1.0 or 1.1. The default is 1.1.
  • internalconfig#: Sets an internal configuration setting.
  • name:*: Used to override the name field of the form data set by the file attribute.
  • proxy_authscheme: The authentication scheme of the proxy server. Allowed values are BASIC, DIGEST, PROPRIETARY, NONE, and NTLM. The default is BASIC.
  • proxy_authtoken: The proxy authentication token.
  • proxy_auto: Whether or not the proxy should be detected from Windows system settings. This takes precedence over other proxy settings and is not available in Java. Allowed values are TRUE or FALSE. The default is FALSE.
  • proxy_port: The port number of the proxy server.
  • proxy_server: The IP address or host name of the proxy server used for the request.
    • proxy_user: The user Id used to authenticate with the proxy server.
    • proxy_password: The password used to authenticate with the proxy server.
  • proxy_ssltype: The SSL/TLS type of the proxy server. Allowed values are AUTO, ALWAYS, NEVER, and TUNNEL. The default is AUTO.
  • sign_method: The signature method used to calculate the signature for OAuth 1.0. Allowed values are HMAC-SHA1 and PLAINTEXT. The default is HMAC-SHA1.
  • sslcert: The SSL/TLS certificate to be accepted from the server. This can take the form of a full PEM certificate, the path to a file containing the certificate, the public key, the MD5 thumbprint, or the SHA-1 thumbprint. Any certificate other than the one specified is rejected. If unspecified, this value defaults to TRUSTED, which means only certificates trusted by the system are accepted. If set to *, any certificate is accepted.
  • sslclientcert: The name of the certificate store for the client certificate.
  • sslclientcertpassword: The password of the client certificate.
  • sslclientcertsubject: The subject of the client certificate. Using an asterisk finds the first certificate in the store.
  • sslclientcerttype: The store type of the client certificate. Allowed values are USER, MACHINE, PFXFILE, PFXBLOB, JKSFILE, JKSBLOB, PEMKEY\_FILE, PEMKEY\_BLOB, PUBLIC\_KEY\_FILE, PUBLIC\_KEY\_BLOB, SSHPUBLIC\_KEY\_BLOB, P7BFILE, P7BBLOB, SSHPUBLIC\_KEY\_FILE, PPKFILE, PPKBLOB, XMLFILE, and XMLBLOB.
  • timeout: The timeout, in seconds, for the operation to complete. Zero (0) means no timeout. The default is 60.
  • token: The request token for OAuth.
  • token_secret: The request token secret. Applicable for OAuth 1.0 only.
  • version: The OAuth version. Use OAuth to authorize the request. Allowed values are Disabled, 1.0, and 2.0. The default is Disabled.

Output Attributes

  • cookie:*: The cookies returned with the response.
  • header:*: The headers returned with the response.
  • http:allcookies: All of the cookies from the response, returned as a single string.
  • http:content: The content of the HTTP response.
  • http:statuscode: The HTTP status code returned from the request.
  • ssl:issuer: The issuer of the SSL/TLS certificate.
  • ssl:subject: The subject of the SSL/TLS certificate.

Example

<!-- Setting the url and upload file for the request -->
<arc:set attr="http.URL" value="https://postman-echo.com/post" />
<arc:set attr="http.file:myfile" value="[FilePath]" />
<!-- Overriding the name and filename attribute on the request -->
<arc:set attr="http.name:myfile" value="myNewFile" />
<arc:set attr="http.filename:myfile" value="customFilename.txt" />
<!-- Setting additional form data on the request -->
<arc:set attr="http.form:hello" value="world" />
<arc:set attr="http.form:foo" value="bar" />
<!-- Adding an HTTP header to the request -->
<arc:set attr="http.header:name#1" value="mySpecialHeader" />
<arc:set attr="http.header:value#1"value="Foo" />
<!-- Setting the credentials via basic authentication -->
<arc:set attr="http.user" value="postman" />
<arc:set attr="http.password" value="password" />
<!-- Optional logging parameter. Useful when troubleshooting a request -->
<arc:set attr="http.logfile" value="/tmp/httpLog.txt" />
<arc:set attr="http.verbosity" value="3" />

<!-- Passing in the http input item to the call and setting the data of the output file to be the HTTP response -->
<arc:call op="httpUpload" in="http" out="response">
  <arc:set attr="output.data" value="[response.http:content]" />
</arc:call>

<!-- Setting the output filename and pushing the file out -->
<arc:set attr="output.filename" value="httpResponseContent.txt" />
<arc:push item="output" />