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How should I design an ASP.NET page for iOS to upload a binary chunk of data?

The spec: iOS app needs to POST binary data (a 5k section of a file) to an ASP.NET web application. For example: POST to http://mydomain.com/Receive.aspx?fileKey=2 with the contents of this POST being a 5k byte[] array.

Due to unrelated issues, web service call is not possible, so this is just a plain ASP.NET request.

Having little iOS experience, how should I design this page so that it's relatively easy for the iOS devs to use, and if there are any iOS devs reading this, how do you set up the ASIHTTPRequest for it?

Solution

  • Create this as a method in an MVC controller. You get the benefit of very clear url and also it will wire up the post variables to come through the method.

    A good example is here Post and read binary data in ASP.NET MVC

    public ActionResult UploadChunk(Guid? uploadID, int? chunkNum, byte[] data)

    Note how the method prototype has a byte array?