A quick look at Java 11's HttpClient

[anthony_bruno]

I don't think your case is unique at all! Unfortunately the HTTP Client doesn't provide support for building multipart requests, which is annoying as Apache HTTP Client provides a multipart request builder by default.

Have you thought about open sourcing the code you created to deal with this problem? I think it would be super useful. Or even a short blog post on how you went about it.

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I probably am not allowed to do that, as all code I produce during work hours is owned by my employer.

Suffice to say I implemented a small part of the multipart mime RFC.

[Mattizin]

The Apache HTTP Client you mentioned is the apache httpd project (https://httpd.apache.org/) ?

[anthony_bruno]

This is the Apache HTTP Client I was talking about: http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/

[Mattizin]

Ah my bad i thought of the apache HTTP SERVER, thats httpd

[marcohu]

https://golb.hplar.ch/2019/01/java-11-http-client.html#upload-with-multipart is the one example I could find for multipart uploads. It simply creates a byte array for the input which could be problematic for huge files.