Pipe a uploaded file to a remote server with node (ideally with same filename)

Question

I want to upload a file in my app.js server , which should pipe that file to a crossdomain server like my upload.js server.

The full code can be found under the foll

Answer 1

Updated

I believe you're missing the protocol from the url. It should work, if you add the http protocol to the url:

fs.createReadStream(file.path).pipe(request.post('http://localhost:4000/upload'))

Make Upload work

When you pipe the file contents to the POST function in upload.js, the multipart form data is lost. You need to create a new POST request and pass the original file contents.

Do the following in app.js:

 form.on('file', function(name, file) {

    var formData = {
      file: {
        value:  fs.createReadStream(file.path),
        options: {
          filename: file.originalFilename
        }
      }
    };

    // Post the file to the upload server
    request.post({url: 'http://localhost:4000/upload', formData: formData});
}

This will also pass the original filename. For more information see: https://github.com/request/request#multipartform-data-multipart-form-uploads