I'am trying to send binary chunk with XMLHttpRequest
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
var bindata = 0x0f0f;
xhr.open("POST", "binary_reader.php");
xhr.send(bindata);
But this approach not works. I've tried to provide Content-type: application/octet-stream, Content-encoding headers for xhr and they don't work either. I am suspect that there is no way to compose request of such kind.
I would appreciate any help.
XMLHttpRequest.sendAsBinary is obsolete. Link
As MDN mentioned, you can directly send binary typed array:
var myArray = new ArrayBuffer(512);
var longInt8View = new Uint8Array(myArray);
// generate some data
for (var i=0; i< longInt8View.length; i++) {
longInt8View[i] = i % 256;
}
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest;
xhr.open("POST", url, false);
xhr.send(myArray);
Yes you can send binary data using XHR. All you need to do is set the appropriate headers and mime-type, and call the sendAsBinary method instead of the simple send method. For example:
var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
req.open("POST", url, true);
// set headers and mime-type appropriately
req.setRequestHeader("Content-Length", 741);
req.sendAsBinary(aBody);
W3C has introduced Blob type to XMLHttpRequest in the latest specification. Currently I haven't seen any implementation so far but in near future this is definitely the way to download and upload binary data with XMLHttpRequest.
