upload image from iphone to the server folder - ios

Question

I found few snippet from online to upload image from iphone to the server folder, it's showing to use server side scripting eg. use php at server side
<?php
$uploaddir = 'uploads/';
$file = basename($_FILES['userfile']['name']);
$uploadfile = $uploaddir . $file;
if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'], $uploadfile)) {
echo "Uploaded!";
}else{
echo "Not Uploaded!";
}
/>
is it any possibilites to upload image directly to the server folder without the above code,
let say I want to upload into http://111.22.333.44/mysite/pics/ w/o any server side scripting, if can how this can be done

Answer 1

/*
turning the image into a NSData object
getting the image back out of the UIImageView
setting the quality to 90
*/
NSData *imageData = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(image.image, 90);
// setting up the URL to post to
NSString *urlString = #"http://iphone.zcentric.com/test-upload.php";
// setting up the request object now
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] init] autorelease];
[request setURL:[NSURL URLWithString:urlString]];
[request setHTTPMethod:#"POST"];
/*
add some header info now
we always need a boundary when we post a file
also we need to set the content type
You might want to generate a random boundary.. this is just the same
as my output from wireshark on a valid html post
*/
NSString *boundary = [NSString stringWithString:#"---------------------------14737809831466499882746641449"];
NSString *contentType = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"multipart/form-data; boundary=%#",boundary];
[request addValue:contentType forHTTPHeaderField: #"Content-Type"];
/*
now lets create the body of the post
*/
NSMutableData *body = [NSMutableData data];
[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:#"\r\n--%#\r\n",boundary] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithString:#"Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"userfile\"; filename=\"ipodfile.jpg\"\r\n"] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithString:#"Content-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n"] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[body appendData:[NSData dataWithData:imageData]];
[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:#"\r\n--%#--\r\n",boundary] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
// setting the body of the post to the reqeust
[request setHTTPBody:body];
// now lets make the connection to the web
NSData *returnData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:nil error:nil];
NSString *returnString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:returnData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(returnString);
this code will be helpful for you....

Answer 2

If you setup your webserver to allow the PUT method you could do this. 99% of web servers only allow the GET and POST methods.
Having never done that, I can't give you much help. Here is a page that I got from google talking about it:
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/10/understanding-http-put.html