title: asp http POST Read Data
body: <p>I am POSTING some data from an IPhone application want want to be able to read this data from the server. I have never created a http post server before and i am unsure which is the best way to read this data.</p>
  
  <p>This is the IPhone Code posting the data:</p>
  
  <pre><code>/*
    turning the image into a NSData object
    getting the image back out of the UIImageView
    setting the quality to 90
   */
  
   NSData *imageData = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(image.image, 0.9);
   // setting up the URL to post to
   NSString *urlString = @"http://192.168.56.129/Post/default.aspx";
  
   // setting up the request object now
   NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] init] autorelease];
   [request setURL:[NSURL URLWithString:urlString]];
   [request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
  
   /*
    add some header info now
    we always need a boundary when we post a file
    also we need to set the content type
  
    You might want to generate a random boundary.. this is just the same 
    as my output from wireshark on a valid html post
   */
   NSString *boundary = [NSString stringWithString:@"---------------------------14737809831466499882746641449"];
   NSString *contentType = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"multipart/form-data; boundary=%@",boundary];
   [request addValue:contentType forHTTPHeaderField: @"Content-Type"];
  
   /*
    now lets create the body of the post
   */
   NSMutableData *body = [NSMutableData data];
   [body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"\r\n--%@\r\n",boundary] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]]; 
   [body appendData:[[NSString stringWithString:@"Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"userfile\"; filename=\"ipodfile.jpg\"\r\n"] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
   [body appendData:[[NSString stringWithString:@"Content-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n"] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
   [body appendData:[NSData dataWithData:imageData]];
   [body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"\r\n--%@--\r\n",boundary] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
   // setting the body of the post to the reqeust
   [request setHTTPBody:body];
  
   // now lets make the connection to the web
   NSData *returnData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:nil error:nil];
   NSString *returnString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:returnData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
  
   NSLog(returnString);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How would I read this when it hits my server? I would like to use .Net, C-Sharp, can you give me some examples of how I would achieve this.</p>
  
  <p>What my goal is, to grab the picture data taken and save into a SQL Server table as binary data.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks Guys</p>