title: How to upload a file to Kafka Consumer?
body: <p>I am trying to load a file to Kafka Consumer either with Flume or directly to Kafka.  I started Kafka server using this link: <a href="http://kafka.apache.org/081/quickstart.html" rel="nofollow">http://kafka.apache.org/081/quickstart.html</a></p>
  
  <p>As mentioned in the doc, I started zookeeper and also the brokers. Then I am able to send messages from Producer to Consumer. But, I am trying to see if I can upload an input file from my local machine to Kafka. </p>
  
  <p>Any advice? Thanks.</p>