On 2009-09-09, John D Giotta <jdgio...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm working with an API that allows me to POST a zip file via HTTP and > the documentation uses a cURL example. cURL works, but when I try to > POST the file via python it fails. > I don't want to use cURL (since I'm trying to be transparent and > dependency-less), but I can't find anything online that works. > > When I use multipart/form-data methods (found here > http://code.activestate.com/recipes/146306/), the recipient cannot > decipher the attached file. > > This is about the most difficult thing I've had to do with python and > yet it is supposed to be the very basics of HTTP. > > Example cURL command: > curl -v -u username:passwd --data-binary @/home/jdgiotta/test.zip -H > "Content-Type: application/zip" https://host/selector > > Is there a valid way to do this?
Maybe, but reading from curl manpage it seems that that is doing POST /selector ... Content-type: application/zip data The backend is broken, they should have used PUT for that. Search for "python http put" and adapt, or lookt at urllib(2)/httplib and roll your own. -- Jarkko Torppa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
