I am posting the file to server and its working fine, But the my code fails when i try to post the .zip file. May be my code is wrong in the reading the zip file contents data. ifstream::pos_type size; char * memblock; ifstream file ("example.zip", ios::in|ios::binary|ios::ate); if (file.is_open()) { size = file.tellg(); memblock = new char [size]; file.seekg (0, ios::beg); file.read (memblock, size); file.close(); postBody.AppendFormat("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"datafile\"; filename=\"%s\"; \r\n\n%s", zipFilePath, memblock); postBody.AppendFormat("\r\n--%s--\r\n", boundary); }