Cgi File Upload without Form
Steve Holden
steve at holdenweb.com
Sat Apr 28 14:27:36 EDT 2007
Karsten.G.Weinert at googlemail.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> what is the simplest way to upload a file (or a long string) to a
> server using cgi/python?
>
> Since I want to upload the data programmatically, a form based
> solution is not good. I am not experienced with SOAP/WSDL and I
> believe that would be more difficult than necessary. The client
> program I have to use does not support FTP.
>
A "form-based" solution is actually just what you want - you write a
Python program that does just what the user's browser would do after
they filled in a form.
You can do this with urllib fairly easily. If you get stuck then look
for a library called mechanise.
regards
Steve
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