Any idea of how to upload a binary file attachment from ServiceNow to Box with POST?

[michellefast]

I am trying to integrate ServiceNow with Box. I am able to upload a simple text file to Box via POST, but now I am trying to upload a PDF or a word document (binary files).

As far as I am aware, ServiceNow does not support binary data and encodes files in Base64 before posting it to Box. Box does not support Base64 encoding and requires binary data. I have also attempted to use setRequestBodyFromAttachment('attachment_sys_id') but that has been setting the request body as null.

Does anyone have any recommendations on other approaches or maybe I am missing something? I would prefer to avoid having to modify the MID servers.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[bernyalvarado · Accepted solution]

Hi Michelle,

The following should be helpful:

How to HTTP POST pure binary data to external system?

Thanks,

Berny

[Aleksas Kucins1]

You can send binary attachments from ServiceNow to Box and other platforms with multipart, however it is pretty complicated. This article explains it:

https://servicenowthink.wordpress.com/2020/04/13/how-to-send-binary-data-with-multipart-from-service...