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Alex
Alex

Reputation: 15

Python requests http error 600

I'm trying to upload a file to remote web site, using the CURL script it's working good

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" -H "Authorization: Basic cWERF0ZWNoQXBpOmYxZDhmNzJkNDAwNGRjNzZlMTU0NjU4MTQwGRNzc4NTjM0" -F "[email protected]" http://url/rest/files/upload

but when I'm trying to use the Python requests lib i got this error:

600org.jvnet.mimepull.MIMEParsingException: Missing start boundary

My python code:

import requests
headers = {
    'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data',
    'Authorization': 'Basic cWERF0ZWNoQXBpOmYxZDhmNzJkNDAwNGRjNzZlMTU0NjU4MTQwGRNzc4NTjM0',}     
files = {'file.dat':open('file.dat','rb')}
response = requests.post('http://url/rest/files/upload',headers=headers,files=files)
print response.text

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1161

Answers (1)

hancar
hancar

Reputation: 797

You must avoid the 'Content-Type' in your headers dictionary. This way: 

import requests
headers = {'Authorization': 'Basic cWERF0ZWNoQXBpOmYxZDhmNzJkNDAwNGRjNzZlMTU0NjU4MTQwGRNzc4NTjM0',}     
files = {'file.dat':open('file.dat','rb')}
response = requests.post('http://url/rest/files/upload',headers=headers,files=files)

In this particular case (if the argument files is specified) the library requests adds the Content-Type: multipart/form-data by itself, but with the specification of the boundary at the end. The header then looks for example like this: 

Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=e8c4b746efb54e2f9ae9412a4402714b

By adding 'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data' to the headers argument, the boundary is removed.

Upvotes: 1

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