Jeremy wrote:
> In article <d5suqv$j64$1_at_news1.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>, Frank van Bortel
> says...
>
>>Jeremy wrote:
>>
>>>Platform: Oracle 9ir2 on Solaris 9
>>>
>
>
>>Read UTP_HTTP - it has a read_raw procedure, too.
>>OWA.GET_PAGE_RAW might help, too
>
>
> There seems to be very little about either of these (with spelling
> corrections made) - seems "complicated" to get it working...
>
> Seems to me I should be able to simply issue something like
>
> utl_http.begin_request
> utl_http.read_raw
> utl_http.end_request
>
> The documentation states that using read_raw if no length is specified
> as the 3rd argument then "this procedure will read as much input as
> possible to fill the buffer allocated"
>
> Say you define say
>
> l_raw raw(32767);
>
> And the data that you want to return via read_raw is 64k say.. how do
> you get everything after the first 32k?
>
>
> I am sure I am missing something very obvious here but am having trouble
> locating any examples of how this is all put together.
>
>>>2nd question: what is easiest way of converting the stream of data that
>>>we receive into a BLOB so that we can then reconstruct the original
>>>file?
>>>
>>
>>Not sure I understand - the blob contains the original file.
>>Just write it, using e.g. UTL_FILE.
>
>
> Yep that bit's fine - thanks.
>
>
> REWRITE of need for this post:
>
> Assume a binary doc exists at www.myhost.com/fred.doc
> and I want to get this into a BLOB in a PL/SQL procedure - what is the
> easiest way to get the file content (and you have to accept that the
> pl/sql proce needs to go an get the doc rathe rthan havie it passed-in
> somehow).
>
> Thanks...
>
>
Sorry - wrong version: I looked at 10...
No, no experience with this, but such a file - wouldn't
that be encoded, e.g. BASE64?
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Regards,
Frank van Bortel
Received on Wed May 11 2005 - 12:06:42 CDT
