Re: [gmime-devel] Problem parsing HTTP POST multipart/form-data

[Ron <ron arts gmail com>]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj gnome org> wrote:
> > Now, how do I parse this? On the server side I'm using libevent. My
> > approach was:
> >
> >    stream = g_mime_stream_mem_new();
> >
> >    // not shown, but write all headers to the stream using
> > g_mime_stream_write() each followed by a CRLF
> >    // add empty CRLF, and add the body using g_mime_stream_write()
>
>
> Don't forget to call g_mime_stream_reset (stream);
>
> Otherwise the parser will attempt to parse the stream starting at the very
> end of the content (i.e. the parser will have nothing to parse).

BINGO! That fixed it. Never thought of that.

> >    parser = g_mime_parser_new_with_stream (stream);
> >
> >    // parse the block from the stream.  vdoes not exist?
> >    multipart = g_mime_multipart_new();
> >    while ((object = g_mime_parser_construct_part(parser)) != NULL) {
> >      g_mime_multipart_add(multipart, object);
> >    }
> >    // but this loops only once??
>
>
> Yes, it will only loop once because it will return a GMimeMultipart since
> that's what the content is.
>
> The HTTP headers contain the following Content-Type header:

One last question. With resetting the stream I got it working, but I'm using
g_mime_parser_construct_message(). If that's the case, what is the
difference between
using that and g_mime_parser_construct_part() ?

Thanks,
Ron