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chilkatupload.responsebody returning question marks

Jan 19 '15 at 22:51

Hi edit:(VB6) been stuck on this for a good number of hours and wonder if you can help.

I am using your chilkatupload component to upload files to my webserver. they are being processed by a PHP script

All works well I receive the 3 responses I need (Header,Status and Body) however the body is displayed as rows of question marks.

I think this is something to do with character sets but for the life of me I cannot work out how to decode it.

can you help? Header...

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 08:38:58 GMT
Server: Apache
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=m07k2l5kdsr49o010acqkuhqv4; path=/
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

BODY...

????????›???????????›???????????????????????›???????????????????????????????????????????????????????4?????????

LastErrorTedt...
ChilkatLog:
  BlockingUpload:
    DllDate: Dec  8 2014
    ChilkatVersion: 9.5.0.46
    UnlockPrefix: NONE
    Username: xxxxx;xxxxx
    Architecture: Little Endian; 32-bit
    Language: ActiveX
    VerboseLogging: 0
    Connecting to HTTP server
    domain: www.xxxx.co.uk
    port: 80
    Non-SSL connection
    Connect_Socket:
      hostname: www.xxxx.co.uk
      port: 80
      ssl: 0
      maxWaitMs: 30000
      socketOptions:
        SO_SNDBUF: 8192
        SO_RCVBUF: 8192
        TCP_NODELAY: 0
      --socketOptions
      Success.
    --Connect_Socket
    Fetching the 100 Continue response...
    numFilesToUpload: 3
    sourceFile: C:\CONTROL7\WORKING\UL_JOB.DAT
    sourceFile: C:\CONTROL7\WORKING\UL_SL.DAT
    sourceFile: C:\CONTROL7\WORKING\UL_SLEDR01.DAT
    numBytesSent: 248321
    Upload sent, fetching HTTP response...
    fetchHttpResponse:
      responseStatusCode: 500
      fetchResponseData:
        Data already buffered and ready..
        Data already buffered and ready..
      --fetchResponseData
      Failed because response status code is not 200
      responseStatusCode: 500
    --fetchHttpResponse
    Failed.
  --BlockingUpload
--ChilkatLog

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Answer

See the information about "Charset 101" presented in a series of pages here: http://www.example-code.com/charset101.asp

Specifically, see the 6th page (but read the 1st 5 pages if this does not make sense) http://www.example-code.com/charset101_6.asp