multipart/form-data in an HTTP client

[Jeff Shannon]

Ames Andreas (MPA/DF) wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Jeff Shannon wrote:
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>>I, too, was surprised that the existing Python libraries don't
>>directly support multipart/form-data already, and I hope that this
>>gets added in soon.
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>I'm not sure what you'd call 'support' and I'm certainly no http guru,
>so my hint my be far away from what you want (sorry if so), but the
>function 'parse_multipart' and the class 'FieldStorage' in cgi.py
>(v2.3) both handle multipart/formdata typed requests.
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>

Right, but those handle it from the server side, not the client side.  
(I failed to specify that I was speaking of client-side support, via 
urllib2 or equivalent, having assumed that that would be apparent from 
the post I was replying to.)

Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International