John Hunter wrote:
"John" == John Ziniti <jziniti@speakeasy.org> writes:
John> You really need to send in the "filename" as the value of a John> browser "<input type=file>" form element. In short, the John> file name is not enough info ... the form element passes in John> a file handle as well, allowing the upload.
Yes, I've been reading some of the HTTPRequest source code to try and figure out how this is done, but no luck yet. If anyone knows how to construct this object from a filename/path etc so that it could be used with manage_addFile, I would be much obliged.
Hmmm ... this is non-trivial. I must admit that I have never tried to send stuff this way, But I have looked over the spec for parsing it at the server side, and though it is really not *that* difficult, it is not too easy either. There are 3 ways to send data to a webserver: urlencoded (method="get"), "application/x-www-form-encoded" (method="post") and multipart/form-data (enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post"). It is the latter that is of interrest to you. As far as I can tell it is a form of mime data. So the Mime module is probably where you should look for a solution. Then you will need to do a "post", probably with some special headers and the content of the form as a mime message. I don't believe that you can use the standard urllib or even urllib2 as they only handle data of the "application/x-www-form-encoded " and "urlencoded" type. Hopes it gives a push in the right direction. regards Max M