Parsing MIME-encoded data in an HTTP request

[Michael Ströder]

Ron Garret wrote:
> In article <rNOSPAMon-BDA88C.15302904072008 at news.gha.chartermi.net>,
>  Ron Garret <rNOSPAMon at flownet.com> wrote:
> 
>> In article <3a11k5-al7.ln1 at nb2.stroeder.com>,
>>  Michael Ströder <michael at stroeder.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Ron Garret wrote:
>>>> I'm writing a little HTTP server and need to parse request content that 
>>>> is mime-encoded.  All the MIME routines in the Python standard library 
>>>> seem to have been subsumed into the email package, which makes this 
>>>> operation a little awkward.
>>> How about using cgi.parse_multipart()?
>>>
>> Unfortunately cgi.parse_multipart doesn't handle nested multiparts, 
>> which the requests I'm getting have.  You have to use a FieldStorage 
>> object to do that, and that only works if you're actually in a cgi 
>> environment, which I am not.  The server responds to these requests 
>> directly.
>>
>> Anyway, thanks for the idea.
> 
> Hm, it actually seems to work if I manually pass in the outerboundary 
> parameter and environ={'REQUEST_METHOD':'POST'}  That seems like the 
> Right Answer.

I'm also using it to parse form parameters in a message body received by 
POST.

CIao, Michael.