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    copied!<p>I have a trouble with posting the form data to web server. Everytime i try to post i get this response from server "No message received" so obviously there is something wrong with the code. Am i missing something?</p> <p>Here is the HTML part that i am trying to post:</p> <pre><code>&lt;form id="post" action="url" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"&gt; &lt;fieldset&gt; &lt;input id="board" name="board" value="hiekkalaatikko" type="hidden"&gt; &lt;input id="thread" name="thread" value="0" type="hidden"&gt; &lt;input name="uuid" id="uuid" value="1e54a561-b08e-4bad-b9b6-e618ccd91ef5" type="hidden"&gt; &lt;input name="email" style="position: absolute; left: -9999px;" type="text"&gt; &lt;table id="postform"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="label"&gt;&lt;label for="postername"&gt;Viestinimi&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;input name="postername" id="postername" onkeyup="checkName('poster');" type="text"&gt; &lt;span id="posternamestatus"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="label"&gt;&lt;label for="functions"&gt;Toiminnot&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;input name="functions" id="functions" type="text"&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="label"&gt;&lt;label for="subject"&gt;Aihe&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;input name="subject" id="subject" maxlength="60" type="text"&gt; &lt;input value="Lähetä" name="submit" id="submit" type="submit"&gt; &lt;span id="qrinfo"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="label"&gt;&lt;label for="msg"&gt;Viesti&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;textarea name="msg" id="msg" rows="4" cols="48"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="label"&gt;&lt;label for="file"&gt;Tiedosto&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;input name="file" id="file" size="35" type="file"&gt; &lt;label for="spoilerfile"&gt;Juonipaljastus&lt;/label&gt; &lt;input id="spoilerfile" name="spoilerfile" type="checkbox"&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="label"&gt;&lt;label for="embed"&gt;Upote&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;input name="embed" id="embed" type="text"&gt; &lt;select name="embedtype" id="embedtype"&gt; &lt;option value="9"&gt;Naamapalmu&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="1" selected="selected"&gt;YouTube&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="7"&gt;LiveLeak&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="4"&gt;SoundCloud&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="8"&gt;Vimeo&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="5"&gt;Vocaroo&lt;/option&gt; &lt;/select&gt; &lt;a href="http://ylilauta.org/scripts/help.php?embeds" onclick="window.open(this.href,'embedhelp','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=yes'); return false;"&gt;Upotusohje&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td colspan="2"&gt; &lt;ul id="postinfo"&gt; &lt;li&gt;Sallitut tiedostotyypit ovat gif, jpeg, jpg, mp3, png, rar, swf, zip&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Suurin sallittu tiedostokoko on 10 Mt.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;2642 käyttäjää paikalla. (&lt;a href="http://ylilauta.org/online.php"&gt;Graafi&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Yhteensä 10161 viestiä on lähetetty tälle alueelle. (&lt;a href="http://ylilauta.org/postcount.php"&gt;Graafi&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ylilauta.org/hiekkalaatikko/threadlist"&gt;Aiheluettelo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;/fieldset&gt; &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre> <p>Here is android side code:</p> <pre><code>@Override public void onClick(View v) { switch(v.getId()){ case R.id.send: MultipartEntity reqEntity = new MultipartEntity(HttpMultipartMode.BROWSER_COMPATIBLE); try{ reqEntity.addPart("content-type", new StringBody("text/html; charset=UTF-8")); reqEntity.addPart("board", new StringBody("hiekkalaatikko",Charset.forName("UTF-8"))); reqEntity.addPart("thread", new StringBody("0", Charset.forName("UTF-8"))); reqEntity.addPart("anticaptcha", new StringBody(anticaptcha, Charset.forName("UTF-8"))); reqEntity.addPart("uuid", new StringBody(UUID, Charset.forName("UTF-8"))); reqEntity.addPart("email", new StringBody("", Charset.forName("UTF-8"))); reqEntity.addPart("postername", new StringBody(mNameField.getText().toString(), Charset.forName("UTF-8"))); reqEntity.addPart("functions", new StringBody(mActionField.getText().toString(), Charset.forName("UTF-8"))); reqEntity.addPart("subject", new StringBody(mSubjectField.getText().toString(),Charset.forName("UTF-8"))); reqEntity.addPart("submit", new StringBody("Lähetä", Charset.forName("UTF-8"))); reqEntity.addPart("subboard", new StringBody("0", Charset.forName("UTF-8"))); reqEntity.addPart("msg", new StringBody(mMessageField.getText().toString(), Charset.forName("UTF-8"))); reqEntity.addPart("spoilerfile", new StringBody("checked", Charset.forName("UTF-8"))); reqEntity.addPart("embed", new StringBody("9", Charset.forName("UTF-8"))); } catch(Exception e){} postReply reply = new postReply(); reply.execute(reqEntity); break; } } public class postReply extends AsyncTask&lt;MultipartEntity, Void, HttpResponse&gt;{ @Override protected HttpResponse doInBackground(MultipartEntity... arg0) { array = arg0[0]; HttpResponse response = null; try { HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(); HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("url"); httppost.setEntity(arg0[0]); response = httpclient.execute(httppost); BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(response.getEntity().getContent(), "UTF-8")); String sResponse; StringBuilder s = new StringBuilder(); while ((sResponse = reader.readLine()) != null) { s = s.append(sResponse); } System.out.println(s); } catch (IOException e) { Log.i("Post", "Exception"); e.printStackTrace(); } return response; } </code></pre> <p>Edit: I tryed to send this data to test server from browser and this application. I don't see any data missing, but i get still this same response "No message received" from the target server.</p> <p>This is send from the browser:</p> <pre><code> Time: Wed, 10 Apr 13 11:33:30 -0700 Source ip: *********** Headers (Some may be inserted by server) UNIQUE_ID = UWWwetBx6hIAAA7wUFQAAAAK HTTP_HOST = posttestserver.com HTTP_USER_AGENT = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0 HTTP_ACCEPT = text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE = fi-fi,fi;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3 HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING = gzip, deflate HTTP_CONNECTION = close CONTENT_TYPE = multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------1974624714324 CONTENT_LENGTH = 1326 REMOTE_ADDR = ************** REMOTE_PORT = 11440 GATEWAY_INTERFACE = CGI/1.1 REQUEST_METHOD = POST QUERY_STRING = dir=example REQUEST_URI = /post.php?dir=example REQUEST_TIME = 1365618810 Post Params: key: 'board' value: 'hiekkalaatikko' key: 'thread' value: '0' key: 'uuid' value: '1e54a561-b08e-4bad-b9b6-e618ccd91ef5' key: 'email' value: '' key: 'postername' value: 'name ' key: 'functions' value: 'functions' key: 'subject' value: '' key: 'submit' value: 'Lähetä' key: 'msg' value: 'Test message' key: 'embed' value: '' key: 'embedtype' value: '1' Empty post body. == Multipart File upload. == Received 1 file(s) 0: posted name=file name: type: error: 4 size: 0 File specified was not uploaded. Possible file upload attack. </code></pre> <p>And this is from my application:</p> <pre><code> Time: Wed, 10 Apr 13 11:35:01 -0700 Source ************* Headers (Some may be inserted by server) UNIQUE_ID = UWWw1dBx6hIAAA7bTL8AAAAD HTTP_HTTP_ACCEPT = text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 HTTP_HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE = fi-fi,fi;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3 CONTENT_LENGTH = 2189 CONTENT_TYPE = multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------321842129511553 HTTP_HOST = posttestserver.com HTTP_CONNECTION = close HTTP_USER_AGENT = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0 REMOTE_ADDR = *************** REMOTE_PORT = 11448 GATEWAY_INTERFACE = CGI/1.1 REQUEST_METHOD = POST QUERY_STRING = dir=example REQUEST_URI = /post.php?dir=example REQUEST_TIME = 1365618901 Post Params: key: 'board' value: 'hiekkalaatikko' key: 'thread' value: '0' key: 'uuid' value: '0c44a067-802d-480d-b636-335d6d837c13' key: 'email' value: '' key: 'subject' value: '' key: 'embed' value: '' key: 'embedtype' value: '9' key: 'msg' value: 'Test message' key: 'submit' value: 'Luo aihe' key: 'postername' value: 'Name' key: 'functions' value: 'Functions' key: 'noko' value: 'off' Empty post body. == Multipart File upload. == Received 0 file(s) </code></pre>
 

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