Parsing MIME-encoded data in an HTTP request

[Ron Garret]

In article <rNOSPAMon-BDA88C.15302904072008 at news.gha.chartermi.net>,
 Ron Garret <rNOSPAMon at flownet.com> wrote:

> In article <3a11k5-al7.ln1 at nb2.stroeder.com>,
>  Michael Ströder <michael at stroeder.com> wrote:
> 
> > Ron Garret wrote:
> > > I'm writing a little HTTP server and need to parse request content that 
> > > is mime-encoded.  All the MIME routines in the Python standard library 
> > > seem to have been subsumed into the email package, which makes this 
> > > operation a little awkward.
> > 
> > How about using cgi.parse_multipart()?
> > 
> > Ciao, Michael.
> 
> Unfortunately cgi.parse_multipart doesn't handle nested multiparts, 
> which the requests I'm getting have.  You have to use a FieldStorage 
> object to do that, and that only works if you're actually in a cgi 
> environment, which I am not.  The server responds to these requests 
> directly.
> 
> Anyway, thanks for the idea.
> 
> rg

Hm, it actually seems to work if I manually pass in the outerboundary 
parameter and environ={'REQUEST_METHOD':'POST'}  That seems like the 
Right Answer.

Woohoo!

Thanks Michael!

rg