(Ruby) HTTP Request Boundary Property

Explains and demonstrates the HTTP request Boundary property. For multipart HTTP requests, Chilkat auto-generates a boundary string when the Boundary property is left unset (or empty). For example:

POST /something HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=------------090207000006060206010508
Host: domain
Content-Length: 378

--------------090207000006060206010508
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fileA"; filename="fileA.txt"
Content-Type: text/plain

This is the contents of file A
--------------090207000006060206010508
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fileB"; filename="fileB.txt"
Content-Type: text/plain

This is the contents of file B
--------------090207000006060206010508--

POST /something HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=ABC123HELLOWORLD
Host: domain
Content-Length: 318

--ABC123HELLOWORLD
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fileA"; filename="fileA.txt"
Content-Type: text/plain

This is the contents of file A
--ABC123HELLOWORLD
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fileB"; filename="fileB.txt"
Content-Type: text/plain

This is the contents of file B
--ABC123HELLOWORLD--

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require 'chilkat'

req = Chilkat::CkHttpRequest.new()

req.put_HttpVerb("POST")
req.put_Path("/something")
req.put_ContentType("multipart/form-data")

req.AddStringForUpload("fileA","fileA.txt","This is the contents of file A","utf-8")
req.AddStringForUpload("fileB","fileB.txt","This is the contents of file B","utf-8")

# When the Boundary property is empty (has not yet been set)
# Chilkat auto-generates a random boundary for the request.
# This should almost always be sufficient.
# For example, one can see the generated boundary here:
print req.generateRequestText() + "\n";

# If the Boundary property is set to a specific string, then the
# request will use it:
req.put_Boundary("ABC123HELLOWORLD")
print req.generateRequestText() + "\n";