I did try your suggestions with the different types of encoding but the resulting string still returned nil. You're right about the Tumblr post method. I looked at the Tumblr API again and they do have a form upload method that I implemented instead of what I was trying and it worked well. Thanks for your help--- I really appreciate it!
Daniel On Jan 22, 2010, at 6:32 AM, Jens Alfke wrote: > > On Jan 21, 2010, at 8:39 AM, Daniel Meachum wrote: > >> [[NSString alloc] initWithData:imageData >> encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]]; > > That's not going to work. Not all series of bytes are valid UTF-8, and in > non-textual data like an image you're practically guaranteed to run into > illegal UTF-8 sequences pretty quickly. The result will be a nil NSString. > > If you want a string encoding that supports arbitrary byte values, try > NSWindowsCP1252StringEncoding, which is the default encoding used on Windows. > (It's a superset of ISO-8859 that includes encodings for 80-9F.) > > You also haven't done any URL-encoding of the resulting string. Call > stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding: on the resulting string, but use > NSWindowsCP1252StringEncoding as the encoding parameter (or whatever other > 8-bit encoding you used.) > > —Jens > > PS: Off-topic, I can't believe the Tumblr engineers invented a protocol > that's going to almost triple the size of the image data. It's not REST, or > even the normal way that HTTP forms upload file attachments. Sigh. > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
