I want to upload a file in my app.js server , which should pipe that file to a crossdomain server like my upload.js server.
The full code can be found under the following link
The upload.js server is working. My problem is the app.js server. Request seems to be capable of streaming files (https://github.com/request/request#streaming). But I dont get it working. I am always getting : [Error: Invalid protocol] in my app.js.
It musst be this line:
fs.createReadStream(file.path).pipe(request.post('localhost:4000/upload'))
I changed post to put and in my upload.js the post method also to put, but it results in the same error.
My Goal is to upload a file from the html page to localhost:3000/upload which pipes the file to localhost:4000/upload (ideally with same filename) . But I dont get it working (this post doesn't helped me).
app.js:
var express = require('express')
, multiparty = require('multiparty')
, request = require('request')
, fs = require('fs')
, util = require('util')
, http = require('http');
var app = express();
app.use('/static', express.static('static'));
process.on('uncaughtException', function (err) {
console.log(err);
});
app.get('/', function (req, res) {
res.redirect('static/index.html');
});
app.post('/upload', function(req, res, next){
//https://github.com/request/request#streaming
var form = new multiparty.Form();
form.parse(req, function(err, fields, files) {
res.writeHead(200, {'content-type': 'text/plain'});
res.write('received upload:\n\n');
res.end(util.inspect({fields: fields, files: files}));
});
form.on('file', function(name,file) {
//stream it to localhost:4000 with same name
fs.createReadStream(file.path).pipe(request.post('localhost:4000/upload'))
console.log(file.path);
});
});
var server = app.listen(3000, '0.0.0.0' ,function () {
var host = server.address().address;
var port = server.address().port;
console.log('Example app listening at http://%s:%s', host, port);
});
index.html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head lang="en">
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Upload</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Upload</h2>
<form method="post" action="/upload" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="file" id="file" name="file" />
<button>upload</button>
</form>
</body>
</html>
upload.js:
var express = require('express')
, multiparty = require('multiparty')
, cors = require('cors')
, util = require('util')
, app = express();
app.use(cors());
process.on('uncaughtException', function (err) {
console.log(err);
});
app.get('/', cors(), function(req, res, next){
res.json({msg: 'This is CORS-enabled for all origins!'});
});
app.post('/upload', cors(), function(req, res, next){
var form = new multiparty.Form();
form.parse(req, function(err, fields, files) {
res.writeHead(200, {'content-type': 'text/plain'});
res.write('received upload:\n\n');
res.end(util.inspect({fields: fields, files: files}));
});
form.on('file', function(name,file) {
console.log(file);
console.log(name);
});
});
app.listen(4000, function(){
console.log('CORS-enabled web server listening on port 4000');
});
You actually can do
stream.pipe(request.post(url));
, and then on the another server yourreq
variable will have a stream-like behavior, so you should be able toreq.pipe(fs.createWriteStream(path));
.Use
req.params
on your route to preserve the filename.Example code for server one (use some hashing like md5 to validate your request):
Example code for server two:
I had a similar problem but I wanted to stream the file directly to the remote server instead of saving it locally first. Here's my modifications to get streaming to work:
Updated
I believe you're missing the protocol from the url. It should work, if you add the
http
protocol to the url:Make Upload work
When you pipe the file contents to the POST function in upload.js, the multipart form data is lost. You need to create a new POST request and pass the original file contents.
Do the following in
app.js
:This will also pass the original filename. For more information see: https://github.com/request/request#multipartform-data-multipart-form-uploads