Hi,
sorry for following-up to myself. Some remarks:
1) Please excuse the bogus original message. I wrote it a minute
before I knocked off work and I promise to never do so again :-)
2) What I really wanted to know was: FieldStorage writes what it
reads from the stream that is given to its constructor's fp (or
sys.stdin by default) to a temporary file only _in some cases_. My
question was or rather should have been, if it was possible in any
case to get what FieldStorage has read from its input stream either
as a string or as a file.
3) After staring at FieldStorage's source code for some time now I
seem to be sure that this isn't possible because the input stream
is read to a local variable in some cases, i. e. when the request
is url-encoded.
cheers,
andreas