I'm trying to write a post request function that sends a file to a client from a golang server. The code is cribbed a bit from here (golang POST data using the Content-Type multipart/form-data). For whatever reason I always get "404 page not found", even though the same request when done through postman is hitting the endpt and returning successfully. This is bizarre behaviour and I'm not quite certain how to debug. (I've hard coded the URL to hit a locally running server for test purposes.)
Here is my code:
func PostUpload(values map[string]io.Reader, URL string){
fmt.Println("inside PostUpload in outbound")
client := &http.Client{}
var err error
var b bytes.Buffer
w := multipart.NewWriter(&b)
for key, r := range values {
var fw io.Writer
if x, ok := r.(io.Closer); ok {
defer x.Close()
}
// Add an image file
if x, ok := r.(*os.File); ok {
if fw, err = w.CreateFormFile(key, x.Name()); err != nil {
return
}
} else {
// Add other fields
if fw, err = w.CreateFormField(key); err != nil {
return
}
}
if _, err = io.Copy(fw, r); err != nil {
fmt.Println("there was an error")
fmt.Println(err)
}
}
w.Close()
// Now that you have a form, you can submit it to your handler.
// req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", URL, &b)
req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", "http://127.0.0.1:5000/upload", &b)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("there was an error on http.NewRequest in outbound post file upload")
fmt.Println(err)
}
// Don't forget to set the content type, this will contain the boundary.
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", w.FormDataContentType())
requestDump, err := httputil.DumpRequest(req, true)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
}
fmt.Println(string(requestDump))
// Submit the request
resp, err := client.Do(req)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("there was an error on client do in outbound post file upload")
fmt.Println(err)
}
resp_body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
var parsed map[string]interface{}
err = json.Unmarshal(resp_body, &parsed)
if err!=nil{
if typeof(resp_body)=="[]uint8"{
fmt.Println("received []uint8, converting and displaying")
fmt.Print(string(resp_body))
}else{
fmt.Println("inside unmarshal error")
fmt.Println(err)
}
}
return
}
And here is the output in console:
api | 21:16:09 app | inside PostUpload in outbound
api | 21:16:09 app | POST /upload HTTP/1.1
api | Host: 127.0.0.1:5000
api | Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=0ce8aee17e5d00524acd3875d8b4b41dba5f99d8a7796d56289e38f89c64
api |
api | --0ce8aee17e5d00524acd3875d8b4b41dba5f99d8a7796d56289e38f89c64
api | Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="/uploads/TIME^2019-01-26 21:16:09.413514444 +0000 UTCFILE^Any_Publishing.txt"
api | Content-Type: application/octet-stream
api |
api | # © 2016 and later: Unicode, Inc. and others.
api | # License & terms of use: http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html#License
api | #
api | # File: Any_Publishing.txt
api | # Generated from CLDR
api | #
api |
api | # Variables
api | $single = \' ;
api | $space = ' ' ;
api | $double = \";
api | $back = \` ;
api |
api | --0ce8aee17e5d00524acd3875d8b4b41dba5f99d8a7796d56289e38f89c64--
api |
api | 21:16:09 app | received []uint8, converting and displaying
api | 404 page not found
Does anyone see what is going wrong?
EDIT:
Someone suggested commenting out the dump on req as it may consume req leaving it empty for the request. I tried that with the same results as above.
Someone mentioned that they wanted to see the curl request of a successful upload so here it is:
patientplatypus:~/Downloads:15:48:28$curl -X POST -F "file=@./catpic.jpg" http://127.0.0.1:5000/upload
file uploaded successfully!
Full dump of curl with -v flag:
patientplatypus:~/Downloads:15:48:42$curl -v -X POST -F "file=@./catpic.jpg" http://127.0.0.1:5000/upload
Note: Unnecessary use of -X or --request, POST is already inferred.
* Trying 127.0.0.1...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 5000 (#0)
> POST /upload HTTP/1.1
> Host: 127.0.0.1:5000
> User-Agent: curl/7.54.0
> Accept: */*
> Content-Length: 264915
> Expect: 100-continue
> Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=------------------------48411aa948b523e2
>
< HTTP/1.1 100 Continue
* HTTP 1.0, assume close after body
< HTTP/1.0 200 OK
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
< Content-Length: 27
< Server: Werkzeug/0.14.1 Python/3.6.5
< Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 22:12:19 GMT
<
* Closing connection 0
file uploaded successfully!
Someone mentioned that they wanted to see the server I was attempting to hit so here it is: https://github.com/patientplatypus/pythonServer
