[bugfix] File upload fails

[tobo]

Hi everyone,

I encountered a problem with posting files to some web server. After uploading a file the server claims that no file was uploaded.

It took me about 6 hours to convince myself that there was no error in my code and reviewing the snoopy source, but finally I found the "bug" (I think it's a bug within the web server and not in the snoopy class, but I didn't look up rfc 1867 that deep).

When uploading a file with a browser like firefox oder ie there is a header of the following format:

Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary="-----------fsj83fksdfjk1d"

This boundary is generated by the browser and separates the form file(s) and every other form data.

But: Some web server (couldn't figure out what kind of server they are using; apache server work fine without this modification) need a (few) leading hyphen to accept the boundary.

What I did to fix it:
Edit snoopy source, look up in the function _prepare_post_body(), go to the line where

$this->_mime_boundary = "----Snoopy".md5(uniqid(microtime()));

Just add four hyphen "-" and save it.
My snoopy.class.php now contains

$this->_mime_boundary = "----Snoopy".md5(uniqid(microtime()));

and everything works fine for me.

Maybe some of the devs get accross this and fix this in the source.

Cheers,
tobo

[tobo]

Sorry, the original code contains

$this->_mime_boundary = "Snoopy".md5(uniqid(microtime()));

and i changed this to

$this->_mime_boundary = "----Snoopy".md5(uniqid(microtime()));

Cheers,
tobo