In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael Ströder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ron Garret wrote:
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Ron Garret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >> Michael Ströder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Ron Garret wrote:
> >>>> I'm writing a little HTTP server and need to parse request content that
> >>>> is mime-encoded. All the MIME routines in the Python standard library
> >>>> seem to have been subsumed into the email package, which makes this
> >>>> operation a little awkward.
> >>> How about using cgi.parse_multipart()?
> >>>
> >> Unfortunately cgi.parse_multipart doesn't handle nested multiparts,
> >> which the requests I'm getting have. You have to use a FieldStorage
> >> object to do that, and that only works if you're actually in a cgi
> >> environment, which I am not. The server responds to these requests
> >> directly.
> >>
> >> Anyway, thanks for the idea.
> >
> > Hm, it actually seems to work if I manually pass in the outerboundary
> > parameter and environ={'REQUEST_METHOD':'POST'} That seems like the
> > Right Answer.
>
> I'm also using it to parse form parameters in a message body received by
> POST.
>
> CIao, Michael.
Just for the record, here's the incantation I ended up with:
class post_handler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
def do_POST(self):
form = cgi.FieldStorage(fp=self.rfile, headers=self.headers,
environ={'REQUEST_METHOD':'POST'})
...
works like a charm.
rg
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