multipart/form-data submission with httplib + MimeWriter?

[Steve Purcell]

Richard van de Stadt wrote:
> Steve Purcell wrote:
> > Can anyone point me towards some example code for performing
> > 'multipart/form-data' submissions of form values and file contents
> > using httplib and MimeWriter?
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean.
> 
> Are you asking about 
>  - how to *fill in* such webforms automatically, or
>  - how to create a form with which a file can be uploaded, or
>  - how to deal with the contents of such a form when submitted?

None of the above. I meant exactly what I said; making multipart/form-data
POST submissions programmatically using httplib and MimeWriter.

But thanks for the reply anyway.

I figured it out in the end, after some experimentation. The two libraries
don't work well together for various reasons. For intance, MimeWriter can't
provide a content-length, which POST requests require. Fortunately it's
trivial to write multipart MIME messages 'the long way'.

(Background; I'm working on a client-side web testing library that sits on
PyUnit, and which will soon be available at webunit.sourceforge.net)

-Steve

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