Re: [Zope] Re: Upload just file headers?

2000-10-12 Thread Toby Dickenson
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 15:41:16 -0700 (PDT), knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: infilename = REQUEST.form['attached_file'].filename # Get filename infile = REQUEST.form['attached_file'] # Get the file descriptor myheader = infile.read(500)# Read up to 500 bytes infile.close()

Re: [Zope] Re: Upload just file headers?

2000-10-12 Thread Martijn Pieters
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 03:54:17PM -0400, Paul Winkler wrote: For example, take a .gif or .jpeg file and throw away all but the first (let's say) 1 kb of the file. If you try to open this truncated file with an image editor (gimp, photoshop, whatever) you'll have problems. But useful

Re: [Zope] Re: Upload just file headers?

2000-10-12 Thread Paul Winkler
Martijn Pieters wrote: This doesn't hold true for JPEG's. (snip) Aha, thanks. I'll have to think of a way to deal with this... --PW .paul winkler.. slinkP arts: music, sound, illustration, design, etc. web page: http://www.slinkp.com

RE: [Zope] Re: Upload just file headers?

2000-10-11 Thread Seb Bacon
Hmm, well you certainly can't do it at the browser side. A well-formed HTTP header should contain a content-length attribute which you can examine. However, deciding whether to accept the file or not would I imagine not be possible inside zope since the whole POST operation is handled by

Re: [Zope] Re: Upload just file headers?

2000-10-11 Thread Chris McDonough
Paul, I'm sorry if I'm dropping context here, but I'm not sure what you mean when you say "headers of files". Do you just want to check the size of files before you put them in the ZODB? - Original Message - From: "Paul Winkler" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Zope mailing list" [EMAIL

Re: [Zope] Re: Upload just file headers?

2000-10-11 Thread Paul Winkler
Another way to look at it: I want to start uploading the file, but stop the upload almost immediately - after I've got enough to read the file header, but long before the upload would normally finish. Chris McDonough wrote: Paul, I'm sorry if I'm dropping context here, but I'm not sure

Re: [Zope] Re: Upload just file headers?

2000-10-11 Thread knight
Here's an idea for you. I use some of the code below in my FileBase product to receive uploads, although, I've added some "code" I think might help you for grabbing just the header. Although I'm not sure if the file descriptor that infile claims from the form has already been loaded into either

Re: [Zope] Re: Upload just file headers?

2000-10-11 Thread Paul Winkler
Much thanks to Knight and to Peter Bengtsson (who replied off-list), I know have at least two possible avenues to explore. If I ever get this to work, I'll post it! -- .paul winkler.. slinkP arts: music, sound, illustration, design, etc. web

Re: [Zope] Re: Upload just file headers?

2000-10-11 Thread Tony McDonald
Much thanks to Knight and to Peter Bengtsson (who replied off-list), I know have at least two possible avenues to explore. If I ever get this to work, I'll post it! Please do - we've got people uploading PowerPoints of up to 25-30 Megabytes (record was an attempt at 170 Mb) and we'd like to

Re: [Zope] Re: Upload just file headers?

2000-10-11 Thread knight
Actually, I replied on list, but the phenomina of receiving your CC before the list replicated my original reply occured. ;] Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Paul Winkler wrote: Much thanks to Knight and to Peter Bengtsson (who replied off-list), I know have at least two