Hi Michael, hi Daniel,

first thanks for your help. After digging in the sources I think I 
discovered the problem. The problem is that somehow all "+" characters 
in the base64 encoded string get converted into a " " character. I am 
still not sure at which point the conversion happens. Probably Rails 
thinks that the XML-RPC data is a request parameter and therefore 
automatically converts all "+" characters back into " " characters 
which is of course ok for regular request parameters.  But as I said 
before, I am still searching ...

Yours,
Lars

Am 17.01.2005 um 22:17 schrieb Michael Neumann:

> Daniel Berger wrote:
>> Lars Hoss wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am currently implementing support for the MetaWeblog/MovableType
>> API
>>> in my weblog engine. The API is simply a bunch of XML-RPC methods.
>> One
>>> method allows the uploading of files (metaWeblog.newMediaObject). In
>>> order to send the binary file via XML-RPC the data gets base64
>> encoded.
>>> The xmlrpc library automatically decodes the data. Writing the file
>> to
>>> disk looks something like this:
>>>
>>> def newMediaObject(blogid, username, password, data)
>>>   fileData = data["bits"] # Decoding is handled by xmlrpc
>> automatically
>>>   File.open(data["name"], "wb") { |f| f.write(fileData) }
>>> end
>>>
>>> The written data, however, is corrupted. Sometimes even some bytes
>> are
>>> missing. Uploading plain text files seems to be ok. But uploading
>> arger
>>> files such as JPEG files will result in corrupted data. The client I
>> am
>>> using is MarsEdit.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Lars
>>>
>>> --
>>> "Stil ist die FçÉigkeit, komplizierte Dinge einfach zu sagen - nicht
>>> umgekehrt." -- Cocteau, Jean
>> I remember bringing something like this up with the author last year
>> after reading Randy Ray's use.perl journal entry at
>> http://use.perl.org/~rjray/journal/9899 and
>> http://use.perl.org/~rjray/journal/9922.  Randy Ray is the author of
>> the Perl module RPC::XML, btw.
>> This was Michael's response at the time (please correct me if things
>> have changed Michael):
>> "Implementing [Base64 streaming support] in xmlrpc4r is possible, but
>> it would require some parts to be redesigned, especially where strings
>> are returned (e.g. methodResponse).
>> One problem is that the XML-RPC spec. requires the size of the
>> XML-message to
>> be known in the HTTP header (which is send first). Without this
>> requirement, the whole
>> XML-RPC message could be streamed out a socket."
>> Whether anything has been done since then (about a year ago), I don't
>> know.
>> If this is unrelated, then I apologize for the noise.
>
> Hm, it should work if you pass a XMLRPC::Base64 object as argument, 
> and not a String. Of course streaming does not work, but that's not 
> related to the corruption. Maybe the best would be to encode every 
> string as base64, but that would probably break many clients or 
> servers (other than xmlrpc4r).
>
> Regards,
>
>  Michael
>
>
>
--
"Stil ist die FçÉigkeit, komplizierte Dinge einfach zu sagen - nicht 
umgekehrt." -- Cocteau, Jean