[Chicago] posting html

[Rob Kapteyn]

Here is an ActiveState recipe that might work:

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/146306/

I haven't tried it, but the code looks clean ;-)
Good luck, and thanks for all of your work posting our meetings on  
blip.tv !

-Rob


On Aug 25, 2009, at 11:25 AM, Carl Karsten wrote:

> I am hoping there is a module that does what the 2 funcs below do
> (both do the same thing.)  The first shells out to curl, the 2nd blows
> up on big files because of data.append(open(filename.read()))
>
> I recoded the 2nd, but because I need to do
> h.putheader("content-length", len(data)) I need to calc the len of all
> the strings, then add the length of the files. doable, but some ugly
> looking code.  I call it python-ick.
>
> I am betting there is something in twisted, but this will be example
> code so would prefer to use only standard lib stuff.  but "to use this
> install twisted" isn't out of the question.
>
> def CurlUpload(BLIPURL, fields, file):
>   cline = "curl -F file=@\"%s\" " % (file)
>   for field_name, value in fields.iteritems():
>      cline = "%s -F %s=%s " % (cline, field_name, re.escape(value))
>   cline = "%s %s" % (cline, BLIPURL)
>   result = os.popen(cline, "r")
>   return result.read()
>
> def PostMultipart(url, fields, files):
>    """@brief Send multi-part HTTP POST request
>
>    @param url POST URL
>    @param fields A dict of {field-name: value}
>    @param files A list of [(field-name, filename)]
>    @return Status, reason, response (see  
> httplib.HTTPConnection.getresponse())
>    """
>    content_type = 'multipart/form-data; boundary=%s' %  
> MULTIPART_BOUNDARY
>    data = []
>    for field_name, value in fields.iteritems():
>        data.append('--' + MULTIPART_BOUNDARY)
>        data.append('Content-Disposition: form-data; name="%s"' %  
> field_name)
>        data.append('')
>        data.append(value)
>    for (field_name, filename) in files:
>        data.append('--' + MULTIPART_BOUNDARY)
>        data.append('Content-Disposition: form-data; name="%s";  
> filename="%s"'
>                    % (field_name, filename))
>        data.append('Content-Type: %s' % GetMimeType(filename))
>        data.append('')
>        data.append(open(filename).read())
>    data.append('--' + MULTIPART_BOUNDARY + '--')
>    data.append('')
>    data = "\r\n".join(data)
>
>    host, selector = urlparts = urlparse.urlsplit(url)[1:3]
>    h = httplib.HTTPConnection(host)
>    h.putrequest("POST", selector)
>    h.putheader("content-type", content_type)
>    h.putheader("content-length", len(data))
>    h.endheaders()
>    h.send(data)
>    response = h.getresponse()
>    return response.status, response.reason, response.read()
>
>
>
> -- 
> Carl K
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