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Saves a file read from a POST method
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| #!/usr/bin/python | |
| # File: save_file.py | |
| # Writes the file read from a POST method to | |
| # a specified directory | |
| # | |
| # Use it with | |
| # <form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="../cgi-bin/save_file.py" method="post"> | |
| # | |
| # Kish | |
| import cgi | |
| import cgitb; cgitb.enable(); | |
| import os | |
| UPLOAD_DIR="/tmp" | |
| def write_html(name): | |
| print "Content-type: text/html" | |
| print "" | |
| print "<html><body>" | |
| print "name " | |
| print name | |
| print "</body></html>" | |
| def save_file(name,upload_dir): | |
| if not name.file: | |
| write_html("Not a proper file") | |
| #TODO: improve error checking | |
| fout = file(os.path.join(upload_dir, name.filename), 'wb') | |
| while 1: | |
| chunk = name.file.read(100000) | |
| if not chunk: break | |
| fout.write(chunk) | |
| fout.close() | |
| write_html("File written") | |
| def read_form(): | |
| form = cgi.FieldStorage() | |
| name = "No file found " | |
| if form.has_key("file") and form["file"].value !="": | |
| name = form["file"] | |
| return name | |
| # Do the work | |
| read_name = read_form() | |
| save_file(read_name,UPLOAD_DIR) | |
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