How to upload a BitmapData Object straight to my server?

Question

I wish to upload from my Flash Application (AS3) to imageshacks XML API. I wish to know how I can do this.

\"In Flash, we must POST the data using the UrlRequest and

Answer 1

This was of great help to me: http://kitchen.braitsch.io/upload-bitmapdata-snapshot-to-server-in-as3/

You need to modify the URLRequestWrapper to insert field names and file names where needed. Here's what I've done:

bytes = 'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="' + $fieldName + '"; filename="';

It does the most formatting of headers so the server could understand it as a file upload.

By the way, if you have a BitmapData you might need to encode it to JPEG or PNG first.

Regards, Artem