kai wrote: > Hi All, > this is my first post on this list. I am working on a way to monitor the > progress of reading a file upload from wsgi.input. I can currently > monitor the overall transfer and when individual files of a multiple > file upload are completed. The ultimate goal of this is to be able to > display a progress meter when someone is uploading a file. > > To do this I subclassed cgi.FieldStorage but when I finished I had > modified most of the non-trivial methods just to hook in something to > monitor the transfer progress, oops. > > Has anyone else found FieldStorage insufficient for certain tasks? > Is there a general need for a more flexible FieldStorage replacement?
Incidentally, one way I've considered implementing this is to simply write the entire request body to a file, and parse it later, probably in the context of whatever framework I'm using (but typical web frameworks don't actually deal well with tracking an upload, hence a custom WSGI application). -- Ian Bicking / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://blog.ianbicking.org _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list [email protected] Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
