Python SimpleHTTPServer to receive files
<p>I am using SimpleHTTPServer's do_POST method to receive file. The script is working fine if I upload the png file using curl but whenever I use python request library to upload file, File uploads but become corrupt. Here is the SimpleHTTPServer code</p>

<pre><code>#!/usr/bin/env python
# Simple HTTP Server With Upload.

import os
import posixpath
import BaseHTTPServer
import urllib
import cgi
import shutil
import mimetypes
import re
try:
    from cStringIO import StringIO
except ImportError:
    from StringIO import StringIO

class SimpleHTTPRequestHandler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):    
    # Simple HTTP request handler with POST commands.

    def do_POST(self):
        """Serve a POST request."""
        r, info = self.deal_post_data()
        print r, info, "by: ", self.client_address
        f = StringIO()

        if r:
            f.write("&lt;strong&gt;Success:&lt;/strong&gt;")
        else:
            f.write("&lt;strong&gt;Failed:&lt;/strong&gt;")

        length = f.tell()
        f.seek(0)
        self.send_response(200)
        self.send_header("Content-type", "text/html")
        self.send_header("Content-Length", str(length))
        self.end_headers()
        if f:
            self.copyfile(f, self.wfile)
            f.close()

    def deal_post_data(self):
        print self.headers
        boundary = self.headers.plisttext.split("=")[1]
        print 'Boundary %s' %boundary
        remainbytes = int(self.headers['content-length'])
        print "Remain Bytes %s" %remainbytes
        line = self.rfile.readline()
        remainbytes -= len(line)
        if not boundary in line:
            return (False, "Content NOT begin with boundary")
        line = self.rfile.readline()
        remainbytes -= len(line)
        fn = re.findall(r'Content-Disposition.*name="file"; filename="(.*)"', line)
        if not fn:
            return (False, "Can't find out file name...")
        path = self.translate_path(self.path)
        fn = os.path.join(path, fn[0])
        line = self.rfile.readline()
        remainbytes -= len(line)
        line = self.rfile.readline()
        remainbytes -= len(line)
        try:
            out = open(fn, 'wb')
        except IOError:
            return (False, "Can't create file to write, do you have permission to write?")

        preline = self.rfile.readline()
        remainbytes -= len(preline)
        while remainbytes &gt; 0:
            line = self.rfile.readline()
            remainbytes -= len(line)
            if boundary in line:
                preline = preline[0:-1]
                if preline.endswith('\r'):
                    preline = preline[0:-1]
                out.write(preline)
                out.close()
                return (True, "File '%s' upload success!" % fn)
            else:
                out.write(preline)
                preline = line
        return (False, "Unexpect Ends of data.")



    def translate_path(self, path):
        """Translate a /-separated PATH to the local filename syntax.

        Components that mean special things to the local file system
        (e.g. drive or directory names) are ignored.  (XXX They should
        probably be diagnosed.)

        """
        # abandon query parameters
        path = path.split('?',1)[0]
        path = path.split('#',1)[0]
        path = posixpath.normpath(urllib.unquote(path))
        words = path.split('/')
        words = filter(None, words)
        path = os.getcwd()
        for word in words:
            drive, word = os.path.splitdrive(word)
            head, word = os.path.split(word)
            if word in (os.curdir, os.pardir): continue
            path = os.path.join(path, word)
        return path

    def copyfile(self, source, outputfile):
        """Copy all data between two file objects.

        The SOURCE argument is a file object open for reading
        (or anything with a read() method) and the DESTINATION
        argument is a file object open for writing (or
        anything with a write() method).

        The only reason for overriding this would be to change
        the block size or perhaps to replace newlines by CRLF
        -- note however that this the default server uses this
        to copy binary data as well.

        """
        shutil.copyfileobj(source, outputfile)



def test(HandlerClass = SimpleHTTPRequestHandler,
         ServerClass = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer):
    BaseHTTPServer.test(HandlerClass, ServerClass)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    test()
</code></pre>

<p>client side code to upload a file is here</p>

<pre><code>#!/usr/bin/python

import requests

files = {'file': open('test.png', 'rb')}
r = requests.post('http://192.168.5.134:8000', files=files)
print r.request.headers
</code></pre>

<p>File was uploaded successfully but become corrupted. </p>

<p><a href="http://i.stack.imgur.com/NOmXc.png" rel="nofollow">python request header</a></p>

<p><a href="http://i.stack.imgur.com/Ct7ps.png" rel="nofollow">SimpleHTTPServer response</a></p>

<p>Using curl [ curl -F 'file=@test.png' 192.168.5.134:8000/ -v ], file uploaded and opened successfully.</p>

<p>Is there any issue in python-request code?</p>

<p><code>curl</code> and <code>request</code> have a slightly different header, <code>curl</code> has an additional empty line while <code>requests</code> doesn't.</p>

<p>Replace <code>preline = self.rfile.readline()</code> with the following block</p>

<pre><code>if line.strip():
    preline = line
else:
    preline = self.rfile.readline()
</code></pre>

python file-upload cgi python-requests simplehttpserver