saving octet-stream png file

[Jon Ribbens]

On 2016-08-22, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet at unequivocal.eu> wrote:
>> On 2016-08-19, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> fd.write(request.POST[key])
>>
>> You could try:
>>
>>   request.encoding = "iso-8859-1"
>>   fd.write(request.POST[key].encode("iso-8859-1"))
>>
>> It's hacky and nasty and there might be a better "official" method
>> but I think it should work.
>
> For some reason that messes up the request structure:
>
> (Pdb) type(request.POST[key])
><type 'unicode'>
> (Pdb) request.encoding = "iso-8859-1"
> (Pdb) type(request.POST[key])
> *** MultiValueDictKeyError:
> "u'right-carotidartery:63B2E474-D690-445F-B92A-31EBADDC9D93.png'"

Sounds like you should be filing a bug report with Django.