It’s great what you can accomplish in a few lines of code. The Node based source code below uses express to create a mini view-based web server along with a mock Http Put file upload destination.
/**
* Module dependencies.
*/
var express = require('express')
, routes = require('./routes')
, http = require('http')
, path = require('path');
var app = express();
app.configure(function(){
app.set('port', process.env.PORT || 8080);
app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');
app.set('view engine', 'jade');
app.use(express.favicon());
app.use(express.logger('dev'));
app.use(express.bodyParser());
app.use(express.methodOverride());
app.use(app.router);
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
});
app.put('/upload/:fileUpload', function(req, res, next){
console.log('uploading!');
res.send('OK', { 'Content-Type': 'text/plain' }, 200);
});
app.configure('development', function(){
app.use(express.errorHandler());
});
app.get('/', routes.index);
http.createServer(app).listen(app.get('port'), function(){
console.log("Express server listening on port " + app.get('port'));
});
Using WebStorm’s Node/Express template, I only added 4 lines:
app.put('/upload/:fileUpload', function(req, res, next){
console.log('uploading!');
res.send('OK', { 'Content-Type': 'text/plain' }, 200);
});
These 4 lines added a new route/path for uploading a file in the pattern of /upload/ {fileName}.
The response was “OK.”
I’d tried this same thing using ASP.NET MVC 4 (with Razor), but was stumped by the error when trying to use HttpPut on an Action in the controller.
I was using this end-point as a mock-upload destination for my SmugMug application,
SnugUp. I wanted to
eliminate the uploading process as it’s time consuming and messes up my SmugMug
galleries!
The C# code is simple as it uses HttpWebRequest:
HttpWebRequest uploadRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(ApplicationConstants.UploadUrl + "photo.jpg");
uploadRequest.Timeout = (int)10080 * 60 * 1000; // 7 days
uploadRequest.Method = "PUT";
uploadRequest.UserAgent = ApplicationConstants.UserAgent;
uploadRequest.ContentLength = fi.Length;
uploadRequest.KeepAlive = true;
(SmugMug grabs the file name from a custom Http Header, so, the put URL is always “photo.jpg”.)
