Still haven't found an answer, after 4 hours searching the egroups archive. Just to clarify: I need to read the headers of the files BEFORE I upload the entire file, because the files may be very large and I need to be able to give a warning if the file does not meet certain criteria. Example: a jpeg file of 500x400 pixels, approx. 200 kb when the application, to be used in an application that needs much higher resolution in order to look good. I want to avoid wasting 50 seconds or so uploading this file just to find out that it's no good. If I could upload the first bit of the file (1k should be plenty), I could open it with PIL and check the size attribute. (I've verified this by doing head --bytes 500 foo.jpeg > test.jpeg and then opening test.jpeg in python - it works even though the file has been truncated.) I wrote:
I'd like to make a form that looks like the typical file upload form, but will upload ONLY the header of the chosen file. Anyone know how / if this can be done?
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