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Issue Summary

Last week I added a question to the forum about uploading local images to eBay by converting them to a Base64Binary format, a string, which has since been deleted due to finding a better solution or so I thought. After hours of scouring the internet for information on how an embedded image should be formatted within an XML request (see related question below), I decided to stray away from the UploadSiteHostedPictures call. The approach I took next turned out to be very simple and clean in comparison to my former attempt. Opposed to uploading the photos to eBay's server and linking them to the listing, I provided a direct link of each photo from their respective external source. This worked out great until I tried creating a listing where only a single photo was added to the item due to eBay's Self-Hosting policy, which allows for only one photo to be linked from an address outside eBay's domain. I was inevitably forced to make a reluctant return to the UploadSitedHostedPictures API call except this time my image was in the form of a direct link instead of a Base64 data string--which brings me to the latest issue (below).

(Most Recent) Problem

I'm trying to upload an image to eBay's server using the UploadSiteHostedPictures API call but I keep getting the error below. The only difference between my request and the sample API call provided near the bottom of the UploadSiteHostedPictures docs, that I'm aware of, is the protocol being used (sample request: HTTP / my request: HTTPS).

If anyone can provide information or assistance on what seems to be a ongoing series of problems, I would greatly appreciate it. In the meantime, I will continue searching for a viable solution for adding photos to an item listing and if one is found I will be sure to update the details of the question for others facing similar problems.

Update (5/8/2014): Still no solution for uploading images from a secure source (HTTPS), however, I did stumbled across a PHP example of the UploadSiteHostedPictures call (see related links below) which provided enough information to move on to the next error.

**New Error Information: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23550750/xml-request-attachment-missing**

Related

• https://forums.developer.ebay.com/questions/3470/uploadsitehostedpictures-include-a-binary-attachme.html

• https://ebaydts.com/eBayKBDetails?KBid=1092

P.S. Uploading an image using the Base64Binary string format is by far the most useful in regards to my application which makes it my #1 preferred method.