[Webware-discuss] Kinda OT: HTTP uploading

[Ian B. <ia...@co...>]

This isn't about Webware in particular, but maybe someone can give me
advice on this:

How inefficient is it to upload files via HTTP vs. FTP?  I get the
impression there's some sort of encoding in HTTP, but I'm not sure,
and I'm not sure how bad it is.

If I do an upload via HTTP, how can I do the client side in Python?
urllib.urlencode(vars) works for normal POST, right?  But I have the
impression there's something more complicated (MIME-like) for image
uploading (the multipart/form-data enctype...?)

Has anyone done this before?  Up until now I've only done GET requests
with httplib.

Thanks,
  Ian