(keitai-l) Moblog Appli

Hi All,

Right so I finally got my moblog appli to work - I can now post blog 
articles including photos from my Sharp 505.  There is one setback at 
the moment, which is that the 505 is limited to 10240bytes in its POSTs, 
and the resolution on the phone camera is so high, that the base64 
encoding of the photo can't fit in the POST.

see http://www.neurogrid.net/sam/

With the XML POST I have 7970 bytes spare for the photo, which on my 
505, often seems to exceed that limit.

So what I'm hoping you bloggers and keitai-erscan help me with is some 
cunning way to get round this. I've tried telling the camera to produce 
a smaller image, or one of lower quality to reduce the size, but have 
been roundly ignored, i.e. I tried this:

        camera.setImageSize(width-100, height-100);
        camera.setAttribute(Camera.DEV_QUALITY, Camera.ATTR_QUALITY_LOW );

but the images coming back from the camera are just the same size.
I've tried writing to the output buffer in chunks during posting, but 
there seems to be a strict 10240 byte limit on the outgoing post.  

I can't see any easy way to compress the photo or spread it over two 
posts .... hmm that makes me think I could send the image in parts and 
then reassemble using cunning html hmm ....

Well, there are other options such as sending the image binary instead 
of base 64 - but that's probably out given we have to transfer over HTTP 
- I mean I could have some script on the server that would take incoming 
byte streams, but the doja HTTP POST might not like it - or even I could 
switch to something more compact like base128 ....?

Anyway, I'd very much appreciate any ideas on this matter.

I'm planning to release both moblog appli and code as soon as I can make 
the user experience something less than "intensely annoying".

CHEERS> SAM