Python file upload

[Richard Barrett]

I think you will find that your calls to cgi.escape the incoming data are 
the cause of your problem.

You do not need to escape incoming multipart/form data. The documentation 
for cgi.escape says:

<quote>
Use this if you need to display text that might contain such characters in HTML
</quote>

which is clearly not your purpose in handling the incoming data, 
particularly when it is binary data.

At 08:08 26/06/2002 +0000, Bjarne Christiansen wrote:
>Hi,
>I have some problems uploading binary files though the web browser. It 
>seens to work fine when uploading ACII file but but binary files seems to 
>be currupted. The begining of the binary file seems fine, but some data is 
>missing....
>
>Here is my file upload script:
>
>#!c:\Python\python -d
>
>import cgi
>
>print "content-type: text/html\n\n"
>
>form = cgi.FieldStorage()
>if not form:
>  print """
><form action="http://localhost/cgi-bin/upload.py" method="POST" 
>enctype="multipart/form-data">
><input type="file" name="filename">
><input type="submit">
></form>
>  """
>elif form.has_key("filename"):
>  item = form["filename"]
>  if item.file:
>    data = item.file.read()
>    print cgi.escape(data)
>    data1 = cgi.escape(data)
>    f = open("file1.jpg","wb")
>    f.write(data1)
>
>Any help will be greatly appriciated!
>
>Best Regards,
>Bjarne Christiansen
>bjarne_christiansen at hotmail.com
>
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