Re: [Webware-discuss] Upload files to upload forms from within Python

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

On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 13:48, Ernesto Revilla wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> I'm trying to send a file to Webwares FileUpload.py in the examples. But I'm
> not able to make this work. I tried to capture what the browser sends to the
> server. I need this for some automation tasks.
> I'm using Apache 1.3.23 and Webware7b1
> 
> Suppose I have c:/web.txt...
> -----------------------------7d21b62f5011e
> Content-Disposition: form-data; name="filename"; filename="C:\kk.txt"
> Content-Type: text/plain
> 
> Only testing
> -----------------------------7d21b62f5011e
> Content-Disposition: form-data; name="_action_"
> 
> fileupload
> -----------------------------7d21b62f5011e--
> 
> ...so my upload code is something like:
> 
> # send form with file data test
> file='c:/web.txt'
> f=open(file)
> boundary=f.readline()[:-1]    # read the boundary
> data="%s\n%s" % (boundary, f.read())    #all data

I'm not clear what you are doing with the boundary here.  Data should
look like:

--%(boundary)s
Content-disposition: form-data; name="filename"; filename="%(filename)s"
Content-type: %(mimeType)s

%(data)s
--%(boundary)s--