This fork contains a simple port from Chris AtLee's original code. The following readme may be found on his website, and is included for reference purposes only. http://atlee.ca/software/poster/
:Author: Chris AtLee chris@atlee.ca :Date: |today|
poster provides a set of classes and functions to faciliate making HTTP POST (or PUT) requests using the standard multipart/form-data encoding.
A short example may help::
# test_client.py
from poster.encode import multipart_encode
from poster.streaminghttp import register_openers
import urllib2
# Register the streaming http handlers with urllib2
register_openers()
# Start the multipart/form-data encoding of the file "DSC0001.jpg"
# "image1" is the name of the parameter, which is normally set
# via the "name" parameter of the HTML <input> tag.
# headers contains the necessary Content-Type and Content-Length
# datagen is a generator object that yields the encoded parameters
datagen, headers = multipart_encode({"image1": open("DSC0001.jpg", "rb")})
# Create the Request object
request = urllib2.Request("http://localhost:5000/upload_image", datagen, headers)
# Actually do the request, and get the response
print urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
And we can check that it's working with Paste and WebOb::
# test_server.py
import webob
from paste import httpserver
def app(environ, start_response):
request = webob.Request(environ)
start_response("200 OK", [("Content-Type", "text/plain")])
for name,value in request.POST.items():
yield "%s: %s\n" % (name, value)
httpserver.serve(app, port=5000)
After starting up the server, you should be able to connect to it with the client and get the following output::
image1: FieldStorage('image1', 'DSC0001.jpg')
For more control over how individiual parameters are handled, you should use
the :class:poster.encode.MultipartParam class::
image_param = MultipartParam.from_file("image1", "DSC0001.jpg")
datagen, headers = multipart_encode([image_param])
You can also combine poster with other urllib2 handlers, e.g. for sending cookies::
opener = poster.streaminghttp.register_openers()
opener.add_handler(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cookielib.CookieJar()))
params = {'file': open("test.txt", "rb"), 'name': 'upload test'}
datagen, headers = poster.encode.multipart_encode(params)
request = urllib2.Request(upload_url, datagen, headers)
result = urllib2.urlopen(request)
0.1 (2008-07-02): - First release, used on internal projects
0.2 (2008-12-01): - Bug fixes from 0.1
0.3 (2009-01-02): - Bug fixes from 0.2: - Use quoted-string encoding for filename parameter - Terminate encoded document with MIME boundary (Thanks to Stephen Waterbury)
0.4 (2009-04-05): - Added all attributes to modules - Bug fixes from 0.3: - Fix connections to HTTPS. Thanks to Kenji Noguchi and Marat Khayrullin
0.5 (2009-10-07): - Fix MultipartParam to open files in binary mode - Update docs to open files in binary mode - Updated register_openers() to return the OpenerDirector object
0.6 (2010-05-10): - Update docs to clarify how to use multiple parameters with the same key - Fix for unicode filenames. Thanks to Zed Shaw. - Added poster.version attribute. Thanks to JP Calderone. - Handle StringIO file objects. Thanks to Christophe Combelles.
0.7.0 (2010-10-23): - Added callback parameters to MutipartParam and multipart_encode so you can add progress indicators to your applications. Thanks to Ludvig Ericson for the suggestion. - Fixed a bug where posting to a url that returned a 401 code would hang. Thanks to Patrick Guido and Andreas Loupasakis for the bug reports. - MultipartParam.from_params will now accept MultipartParam instances as the values of a dict object passed in. The parameter name must match the key corresponding to the parameter in the dict. Thanks to Matthew King for the suggestion. - poster now works under python2.7
0.8.0 (2011-02-13): - Fixed parameter name encoding so that it follows RFC 2388,2047. Thanks to Emilien Klein for pointing this out. - Don't include Content-Length header for each part of the multipart message. Fixes issues with some ruby web servers. Thanks to Anders Pearson.
0.8.1 (2011-04-16): - Factor out handler creation into get_handlers() method. Thanks to Flavio Percoco Premoli
0.9 (future): - Finalize API
1.0 (future): - Bug fixes from 0.9 - No new features
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poster can be downloaded from http://atlee.ca/software/poster/dist/0.8.1
The source code and issue tracker are currently hosted on http://bitbucket.org/chrisatlee/poster
poster is licensed under the MIT license:
Copyright (c) 2011 Chris AtLee
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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