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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/pako/1.0.3/pako.min.js"></script>
<script>
'use strict';
var pako = window.pako;
// In browser
// Initial object //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
var obj = new Array(10);
for (var i = 0; i < obj.length; i++) {
obj[i] = { foo: 'bar', baz: 'БАТ' }
}
// Convert /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
var str = JSON.stringify(obj);
//
// Now `str` is standard utf16 (16-bit) string. But we need 8-bit data
//
// Let's reencode to utf8
// This method is dirty, but simple and ok for example.
var data = unescape(encodeURIComponent(str));
// Compress ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// After compression we have binary data (typed array here).
//
// `XMLHttpRequest.send` accepts typed arrays in modern browsers.
// For ancient ones - more work needed.
//
var resultAsUint8Array = pako.deflate(data);
var resultAsBinString = pako.deflate(data, { to: 'string' });
// Send data to server
//
// Use multipart/form-data:
//
// - small overhead
// - well known format, easy to process anywhere
//
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
function sendModern() {
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest;
console.log('Sending data in modern browsers...');
xhr.open('POST', 'http://localhost:8000/', true);
var formData = new FormData(document.forms.person);
var blob = new Blob([ resultAsUint8Array ], { type: 'application/octet-stream'});
formData.append('binson', blob);
xhr.send(formData);
setTimeout(sendModern, 5000);
}
function sendAncient() {
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest;
console.log('Sending data in ancient browsers...');
// Emulate form body. But since we can send intact only 7-bit
// characters, wrap binary data to base64. That will add 30% of size.
var boundary = '----' + String(Math.random()).slice(2);
var data = '';
data += '--' + boundary + '\r\n';
data += 'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="binson"; filename="blob"\r\n';
data += 'Content-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n';
data += 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n'
data += '\r\n';
data += btoa(resultAsBinString) + '\r\n';
data += '--' + boundary + '--\r\n';
xhr.open('POST', 'http://localhost:8000/');
xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'multipart/form-data; boundary=' + boundary);
xhr.send(data);
setTimeout(sendAncient, 5000);
}
sendModern();
sendAncient();
</script>
</html>
<body>
Sending objects to server, run server code to see result.
</body>
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