Upload of binary files
Peter Mott
peter.mott at btconnect.com
Wed Mar 12 13:35:15 EST 2003
I am having problems with uploading binary files. I have searched the
archives and found my problem several times but no answers. The problem is
that this little form:
<form action="http://in24/cgi-bin/upload.py" method="post"
enctype="multipart/form-data">
Title: <input type="text" name="Title"><br>
File: <input type="file" name="Image"><br>
<input type="submit" value="-OK-">
</form>
with my very standard Python script at the other end will only work for
ascii files. With a binary file only a fragment is uploaded.
The Python is:
if form.has_key("Image"):
fileinfo=form["Image"]
tmp = open("C:/temp/temporary.dat","wb")
lines=0
while 1:
line = fileinfo.file.readline()
if not line: break
lines += 1
tmp.write(line)
tmp.close()
which I have copied from various sources (and tried several variants). One
surprising thing is that a .png file uploads %PNG and no more. This is
Python 2.2.1c2 on Windows 2000 with Apache 1.3.24 for Windows. I'm using
localhost under various names.
Any comments appreciated
Peter
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