Upload of binary files

Thu Mar 13 02:58:28 EST 2003

Agreed - I copied the code, mine originally used read(). But read does not
fix it. Here is an even shorter script:

#! C:/python22/python.exe
import cgi
import cgitb; cgitb.enable()

form = cgi.FieldStorage()

if form.has_key("Data"):
    fileinfo=form["Data"]
    data = fileinfo.file.read()

print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n"
print len(data)

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Text files print their lengths. Graphic files truncate, one to 176 bytes
(actually 176, 177, 176, different each upload). Another gets 3323 bytes up.
A .png file mangages only 4.  The HTML is:

<html><head><title>Upload</title></head><body>

<form action="http://in24/cgi-bin/upload.py"
method="post"
enctype="multipart/form-data">
Text File: <input type="file" name="Data"><br>
<input type="submit" value="-OK-">

</form></body></html>

Peter

"Levente Sandor" <sandorlevi at yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Peter Mott" <peter.mott at btconnect.com> wrote in message
news:<b4nul3$7d2$1 at knossos.btinternet.com>...
> > I am having problems with uploading binary files. I have searched the
> [...]
> >     while 1:
> >         line = fileinfo.file.readline()
> [...]
>
> It is _absolutely not_ a good idea to use the readline() method on binary
files.
> Use the read() method instead, it should work.
>
> ----
> levi