Cgi File Upload without Form

[Karsten.G.Weinert]

Hello,

what is the simplest way to upload a file (or a long string) to a
server using cgi/python?

Since I want to upload the data programmatically, a form based
solution is not good. I am not experienced with SOAP/WSDL and I
believe that would be more difficult than necessary. The client
program I have to use does not support FTP.

Any hint appreciated, kind regards,
Karsten.

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:10:42 -0300, <Ka***************@googlemail.com>
escribió:

what is the simplest way to upload a file (or a long string) to a
server using cgi/python?

Since I want to upload the data programmatically, a form based
solution is not good. I am not experienced with SOAP/WSDL and I
believe that would be more difficult than necessary. The client
program I have to use does not support FTP.

I don't understand your question. Do you control the server, the client,
or both? Which one is in Python?

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[Max M]

Ka***************@googlemail.com skrev:

Hello,

what is the simplest way to upload a file (or a long string) to a
server using cgi/python?

Since I want to upload the data programmatically, a form based
solution is not good. I am not experienced with SOAP/WSDL and I
believe that would be more difficult than necessary. The client
program I have to use does not support FTP.

Try out urllib2

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[Steve Holden]

Ka***************@googlemail.com wrote:

Hello,

what is the simplest way to upload a file (or a long string) to a
server using cgi/python?

Since I want to upload the data programmatically, a form based
solution is not good. I am not experienced with SOAP/WSDL and I
believe that would be more difficult than necessary. The client
program I have to use does not support FTP.

A "form-based" solution is actually just what you want - you write a
Python program that does just what the user's browser would do after
they filled in a form.

You can do this with urllib fairly easily. If you get stuck then look
for a library called mechanise.

regards
Steve
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[Steve Holden]

Ka***************@googlemail.com wrote:

Hello,

what is the simplest way to upload a file (or a long string) to a
server using cgi/python?

Since I want to upload the data programmatically, a form based
solution is not good. I am not experienced with SOAP/WSDL and I
believe that would be more difficult than necessary. The client
program I have to use does not support FTP.

A "form-based" solution is actually just what you want - you write a
Python program that does just what the user's browser would do after
they filled in a form.

You can do this with urllib fairly easily. If you get stuck then look
for a library called mechanise.

regards
Steve
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[Karsten.G.Weinert]

Thanks for your replies, however I think urlllib can not help me here.
I have control over the server side (I can write a cgi-script in
python), but I have very little control on the client side (I have to
use VBA).

Kind regards,
Karsten.

[Dave Borne]

Since I want to upload the data programmatically, a form based

solution is not good.

Karsten,
Could you explain this statement? When I want to move data to a
server in a CGI environment, a form post is the easiest way I can
think of. What are the specific restrictions making forms a problem?

-Dave

[Karsten.G.Weinert]

On 30 Apr., 15:51, "Dave Borne" <[e-mail]:

Since I want to upload the data programmatically, a form based
solution is not good.

Karsten,
Could you explain this statement? When I want to move data to a
server in a CGI environment, a form post is the easiest way I can
think of. What are the specific restrictions making forms a problem?

-Dave

Hello Dave,
what I was thinking was: a form post is meant to be used manually. But
maybe I am wrong here and I can teach my VBA program to fill in forms
automatically. If I were using python as client, I could fill in forms
with urllib. However, I using python only server-side.

Kind regards,
Karsten.

[Karsten.G.Weinert]

OK, I think I have a simple solution now. I am going to use FTP in my
VBA-Client (it's possible) and don't need to do any server-side
programming.

Kind regards,
Karsten.

[Jarek Zgoda]

Ka***************@googlemail.com napisa³(a):

> Could you explain this statement? When I want to move data to a
server in a CGI environment, a form post is the easiest way I can
think of. What are the specific restrictions making forms a problem?

what I was thinking was: a form post is meant to be used manually. But
maybe I am wrong here and I can teach my VBA program to fill in forms
automatically. If I were using python as client, I could fill in forms
with urllib. However, I using python only server-side.

"Form" usually means an action accessible for HTTP POST request with
content-type multipart/form-data. Uploading files is usually done in
this way, if you don't want/cann't use more sophisticated means like
WebDAV (which is HTTP extension, btw).

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