Sending an image from an application to a webserver

I was wondering what the preferred way of sending an image to a webserver from an android application?

I开发者_JAVA百科've seen people

• opening up sockets and send the actual image data.
• base64 encoding it and sending it as a string.

What is the preferred way? Can someone post some examples as well.

Thanks

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You could try writing it to an xml file as a base64 string then send it an parse the file on the server and decode the string to an image.

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An HTTP Post is probably the easiest way, sending it as multi-part form data. Makes it easier to receive as well (a bog standard web server can handle it!)