Scripting HTTP POST - multipart/form-data

[John J. Lee]

Jeff Shannon <jeff at ccvcorp.com> writes:

> I'm looking to script a routine file-upload through an HTTP server
> (which I don't have access to).  I've got specs on the CGI app that
> receives this upload (i.e. field names and expected contents).
> 
> However, it looks like urllib/urllib2 won't handle multipart/form-data
> POSTs.

Neither should have any problem with multipart/form-data.  They don't
actually provide and specific support for it either, though.

[...]
> Is there another (preferably all-python) library that will work for
> this?
[...]

Yes, one that works on top of urllib2:

http://wwwsearch.sf.net/ClientForm


Search for .add_file on that page for an example of file upload.  IIRC
I've posted examples of that here in the past, too.


John