[Chicago] posting html

[Rob Kapteyn]

Carl:
I should have read all of the commentary on that recipe before posting.
This recipe looks better:

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576422/

-Rob

On Aug 25, 2009, at 12:11 PM, Rob Kapteyn wrote:

> 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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