Simple programs for uploading data using sockets.

This code was intended to be a proof-of-concept, and therefore is neither robust nor extremely well-written. SocketUpload is primarily intended for sending POST requests to SimpleHTTPServerWithUpload. socket_upload_ssl makes SSL-encrypted PUT requests to an Amazon S3 bucket.

Files

• SimpleHTTPServerWithUpload.py - Extension of Python's SimpleHTTPServer. All credit goes to Tao Huang.
• SocketUpload.java - Uses the SocketChannel class to upload a file using a generic PUT or POST request to a given hostname.
• socket_upload_ssl.cpp - C++ code that uses the PolarSSL library to upload a file to an Amazon S3 bucket using a PUT request.
• Makefile - Compile/clean the code.

Caveats

• SocketUpload was only tested against SimpleHTTPServerWithUpload.
• socket_upload_ssl was only tested against a completely barebones S3 bucket.
• PUT operations via SocketUpload were not tested because SimpleHTTPServerWithUpload does not support it.
• When using SocketUpload to POST to SimpleHTTPServerWithUpload, the server's response is not returned correctly (regardless of whether the upload was successful).
• SocketUpload uses SocketChannel and lacks SSL support because it was written to run against Avian rather than the JVM
• The code always PUTs/POSTs to the filesystem root (no subdirectories).
• socket_upload_ssl does not handle any Amazon-specific header elements and only supports virtual hosted-style hostnames (i.e. bucketname.s3.amazonaws.com).
• socket_upload_ssl does not send the MD5 hash of the request contents.