HTTPPostJob

[David Faure]

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On Thursday 28 November 2002 20:12, Dawit A. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The current KIO::http_post method is ill equipped to deal with uploading large 
> data or files.  To alleviate this problem I wanted to write a HTTPPostJob to  
> make it easier for app developers so they do not have to create a subclass of 
> TransferJob to workaround this issue.  Though the code is simple enough to 
> write, I am stuck on what interface HTTPPostJob should provide.  Any 
> suggestion ?  I know taking filename is probably sufficient for khtml's 
> purposes, but there might be other places where this is not.  So I need 
> suggestions.  A pointer to a QIODevice perhaps (maybe not) ? 

I like QIODevice a lot for this kind of things. It's the best interface for
"streaming" data, as you want to do here (the 'caller' can provide the data
on demand). The implementation for sending files would then also be very easy, 
a QFile will simply do.

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