Upload a file with python using httplib

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conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("www.encodable.com/uploaddemo/")
conn.request("POST", path, chunk, headers)

Above is the site "www.encodable.com/uploaddemo/" where I want to upload an image.

I am better versed in php so I am unable to understand the meaning of path and headers here. In the code above, chunk is an object consisting of my image file. The following code produces an error as I was trying to implement without any knowledge of headers and path.

import httplib

def upload_image_to_url():

    filename = '//home//harshit//Desktop//h1.jpg'
    f = open(filename, "rb")
    chunk = f.read()
    f.close()

    headers = {
        "Content−type": "application/octet−stream",
        "Accept": "text/plain"
    }

    conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("www.encodable.com/uploaddemo/")
    conn.request("POST", "/uploaddemo/files/", chunk)

    response = conn.getresponse()
    remote_file = response.read()
    conn.close()
    print remote_file

upload_image_to_url()

Michael come lately · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-18 14:00:49Z

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Currently, you aren't using the headers you've declared earlier in the code. You should provide them as the fourth argument to conn.request:

conn.request("POST", "/uploaddemo/files/", chunk, headers)

Also, side note: you can pass open("h1.jpg", "rb") directly into conn.request without reading it fully into chunk first. conn.request accepts file-like objects and it will be more efficient to stream the file a little at a time:

conn.request("POST", "/uploaddemo/files/", open("h1.jpg", "rb"), headers)

edited Apr 18, 2014 at 14:00

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2 Comments

Harshit Sharma Over a year ago

That is what I am trying to ask I don't know how to put headers

gilesc Over a year ago

And I'm telling you that you properly made the headers dictionary, but you have to pass it to your conn.request function in order for it to do anything.

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