Apache & mod_python: I don't receive anything with POST method

Wed Nov 26 08:21:39 EST 2008

Hi,

I'm using a simple form to make possible the users of our site upload
files.

<html>
    <head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1"></head>
    <body>
    <form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="/ws/
upload.py"/>
        <input name="upfile" type="file" size="50"/><br>
        <input type="submit" value="send"/>
    </form>
    </body>
</html>

The "upload.py" looks like this:

from mod_python import apache, util;

def index(req):
    form = util.FieldStorage(req, keep_blank_values=1)
    try:
        # form is empty here
        # return form --> I get "{}"
        ufile = form.get('upfile', None)

        if not form.has_key('upfile'):
            return ":( No 'upfile' key"

        # some checks. I never get beyond here

        ufile = form['upfile']
        if ufile.file:
            return ufile.file.name
        else:
            return ":( It's not a file"
    except Exception, e:
        return 'Fail: ' + str(e)

I'm getting an empty 'form'. No 'upfile' key at all. I've tried to add
some other text fields but the result is the same: empty. If I use GET
method with text fields, it works properly.

Currently I'm using:
Apache 2.2.9 (initially I used Apache 2.2.3 too)
mod_python 3.3.1 (initially I used mod_python 3.2.10 too)
Python 2.5.2

Thanks

Best regards,
León