> I notice that there is some work being done on urllib / urllib2 for > python 2.6/3.0. One thing I've always missed in urllib/urllib2 is the > facility to encode POST data as multipart/form-data. I think it would > also be useful to be able to stream a POST request to the remote > server rather than having requiring the user to create the entire POST > body in memory before starting the request. This would be extremely > useful when writing any kind of code that does file uploads. > > I didn't see any recent discussion about this so I thought I'd ask > here: do you think this would make a good addition to the new urllib > package?
I think it would be very helpful. I'd separate the two things, though; you want to be able to format a set of values as "multipart/form-data", and do various things with that resulting "document", and you want to be able to stream a POST (or PUT) request. Bill _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
