httplib problem

[bjorn]

try

    print form['data'].value

as the last line.

-bjorn

Dirk Engelmann wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I want to transfer data by http betweeen a http-server  (cgi-script) and
>
> a client (httplib).
> I tried this using httplib on the client side and transfering data
> to a cgi-script, but it failed.
> I appended a litele sample - which didn´t work and I can´t find
> a solution.
> Is there another easier way to do this ?
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Cheers,
> Dirk Engelmann
>
> #-------------  http-client  -------------------
> import httplib
> from string import joinfields
> # sample data which should be transfered to the cgi-script port.py
> data = "testdata"
> # header:
> hdr = []
> part = []
> hdr.append('Content-Disposition: form-data; name="data"')
> hdr.append('Content-Type: application/octet-stream')
> hdr.append('Content-Length: %d' % len(data))
> part.append("%s\n\n%s" % (joinfields(hdr,'\n'), data))
>
> # st contains header and data
> st = joinfields(part, '')
>
> # open httplib and execute cgi-script port.py
> h = httplib.HTTP('localhost')
> boundary= '%s%s_%s_%s' % \
>           ('-----', int(time()), os.getpid(), randint(1,10000))
> contentType = 'multipart/form-data; boundary=%s' % boundary
> h.putrequest('POST', '/cgi-bin/port.py')
> h.putheader('Accept', '*/*')
> h.putheader('Content-Type', contentType)
> h.putheader('Content-Length', str(len(st)))
>
> # transfer the data to cgi-script port.py
> h.endheaders()
> h.send(st)
> errcode, errmsg, headers = h.getreply()
> data = h.getfile().read()  # Get the raw HTML
> print data
>
> #--------------- port.py : cgi-script on server -----------------
> import cgi
> form = cgi.FieldStorage()
> print form['data']
>
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