Desktop App with API error message

[Bobby Stone]

Well I have been emailing Rodolfo about this but I'm sure he's tired of hearing from me so much lol so I figured I would post here also to make it public. I saw some old posts about this same thing from v2.0/2.1 but I'm running 2.5.4 and I'm having these errors. When I try to upload my image the response I'm getting from the API is:

{"status_code":403,"status_txt":"invalid base64 byte sequence"}

I think the weirdest thing about this is that it goes back and forth. Sometimes I will get this error and sometimes I will get:

{"status_code":403,"status_txt":"invalid source (thumb)"}

Does anyone know what is causing this? I'm pretty sure it might have something to do when I convert the image to a byte[] using a memory stream and then with that convert it to a base64 string(Convert.ToBase64String(array)). Also I'm using VB.NET to do this...

Here is a snippet of the code. Maybe someone can see if I missed something? It might just be a simple mistake! Thanks!

wb.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
        wb.Method = "POST"
        wb.Timeout = 10000
        Dim parameters As String = "upload=" + (final)
        Dim encoding As New System.Text.UTF8Encoding()
        Dim bytes As Byte() = encoding.GetBytes(parameters)
        Dim os As System.IO.Stream = Nothing
        Dim responseFromServer As String
        Try
            wb.ContentLength = bytes.Length
            os = wb.GetRequestStream()
            os.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length)

Best Regards, Bobby Stone

p.s. Happy New Year!

 

[Rodolfo]

I'm in a different time zone, that's why my replies seems to be delayed. yesterday I was answering your emails like at 3am local time.

 

[Bobby Stone]

Yeah I understand. It's not a problem. Thought I would just put the code out there to see if someone could check it. I do appreciate you helping and being so quick with the replied.

Also, I will get you FTP details when I get home. I'm on my phone and don't know the PW by memory.