File upload to OctoPrint from PowerShell failing

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What is the problem?

I'm using Invoke-Restmethod to upload a file to Octoprint, however I'm getting an error back of "No file to upload and no folder to create". I've taken a network trace and viewing the POST data with the file upload documentation (File operations — OctoPrint master documentation) and I'm not seeing anything off. The gcode is definitely in the body between the boundary and I see the filename being posted as well.

POST /api/files/local HTTP/1.1

Host: octodev

X-Api-Key: MYKEYHERE

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Microsoft Windows 10.0.19041; en-US) PowerShell/7.2.0

Content-Length: 6575664

Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryDeC2E3iWbTv1PwMC

----WebKitFormBoundaryDeC2E3iWbTv1PwMC

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="roo2.gcode"

Content-Type: application/octet-stream

;FLAVOR:Marlin

;TIME:8560

;Filament used: 4.61944m

;Layer height: 0.1

the remainder of the gcode here and then:

;End of Gcode

------WebKitFormBoundaryDeC2E3iWbTv1PwMC--

What did you already try to solve it?

I tried bumping up the file API logging but it doesn't seem to give me anymore information (doesn't seem like it notices an attempt at all). API key works, I can interact with other REST endpoints without issue.

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Can you share your PowerShell script please?

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You need a filepath option as part of the form data, possibly instead of where you have filename="roo2.gcode", does switching to filepath="roo2.gcode" work?

Recently worked with someone on discord with a similar issue, trying to use JavaScript to upload a file manually - this was the result

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This might be wrong - I'm just looking at the code & docs, maybe it was something specific to the library being used at the time, not the actual http request.

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I thought maybe the extra dashes before the last boundary was causing it to not interpret the file contents, however if I remove those Octoprint becomes unstable. I can't reach the web interface and SSH is iffy. I noticed in a network trace that the Pi sends tcp window resizes a the way down to zero and net traffic slows down.

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This works fine over here:

$uri = "REDACTED"
$apikey = "REDACTED"
$file = "REDACTED"

$headers = @{
    "X-Api-Key" = $apikey
}
$boundary = [System.Guid]::NewGuid().ToString();
$LF = "`r`n"

$fileName = [System.IO.Path]::GetFileName($file)
$fileContent = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText($file)
$bodyLines = (
    "--$boundary",
    "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=`"file`"; filename=`"$fileName`"",
    "Content-Type: application/octet-stream",
    "",
    $fileContent,
    "--$boundary--",
    ""
) -join $LF

Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $uri -Method POST -Headers $headers -body $bodyLines -contenttype "multipart/form-data; boundary=$boundary"
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That worked. I'll look this over to see what was done wrong originally. Thank you so much.

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