File upload from client application (non-form based upload)

[stuart at microsoft.com]

Hi

I'm trying to write a Python script to receive and save a file on a web
server that has been POST'ed from a client application.

In essence, this is similar to handling a file upload from an HTML
form. However, I can't use:

form = cgi.FieldStorage()
fileitem = form['file']

since the file is not coming from a form, and hence I don't have a form
field called 'file'.

I have working server-side code in PHP to do this (error handling
removed):

$file = "./test.jpg";
$file_handle = fopen($file,"w");
$mydata = file_get_contents("php://input");
fwrite($file_handle, $mydata);
fclose($file_handle);

What I need is a Python equivalent of the the above PHP script. The
content-type in the POST header is currently set to
"application/octet-stream" which works fine with the php code above.

Any help, advise, pointers, sample code would be hugely welcome,

Many thanks in advance,

Stuart