How do I encode binary file data to ISO-8859-1 to

Question

I'm trying to convert the full string of bytes from a file opened in binary mode to a string encoded in the ISO-8859-1 character set. My understanding is that by converting to ISO-8859-1 all binary information from the file is retained which is why it is being converted to that format. Is this a valid statement?

I'm working in C++ (Visual Studio 2017) building an executable to be used on the Windows platform. I'm not experienced in HTTP programming.

I have prototype code written in PowerShell code which successfully performs the functionality that I'm trying to duplicate in C++. In the power shell code an HTTP message is sent to upload a firmware file to a device.

• The message includes headers and a body:
• The message is using the multipart/form-data protocol.

An example of the headers of the message are:

Authorization: Bearer Yosda0IDRQuVaU_L0SnV5g==                                                                                                              
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=42b745c8-4da8-454e-8c13-cbb5c1f7694f                                                                           
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8  

An example of the body of the message is:

--1a2fc07a-d882-4470-a1da-79716d34cd9b
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="upgrade_file"; filename=""
Content-Type: application/octet-stream

// File data (encoded in ISO-8859-1 format) goes here //
--1a2fc07a-d882-4470-a1da-79716d34cd9b
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="submit"

Install OS
--1a2fc07a-d882-4470-a1da-79716d34cd9b--

The PowerShell script is converting the file with the following lines of code:

$bytes = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes($file.FullName);
if ( $bytes )
{
  $enc = [System.Text.Encoding]::GetEncoding(iso-8859-1);
  $data = $enc.GetString($bytes);
}

Once the headers and body are setup the message is sent and the firmware is uploaded when running the PowerShell code.

In my C++ code I've got the headers and the pre-body and post-body codes worked out. I think (not sure) that I just need to convert the file to iso-8859-1 to get the message to work now.

I'm using libcurl to send the message.

res = curl_easy_perform(pCurl);

Currently (without converting file to iso-8859-1) I get the following error message from the function call:

Failure when receiving data from the peer

When the message is sent I can see that only some bytes are uploaded. I assume that could be because the file data is not properly encoded and when it is reading that data it reaches some point where the data is in a format that it cannot handle.