HTTP POST binary files using Python: concise non-pycurl examples?

Question

I\'m interested in writing a short python script which uploads a short binary file (.wav/.raw audio) via a POST request to a remote server.

I\'ve done this with pycurl,

Answer 1

I know this is an old old stack, but I have a different solution.

If you went thru the trouble of building all the magic headers and everything, and are just UPSET that suddenly a binary file can't pass because python library is mean.. you can monkey patch a solution..

import httplib
class HTTPSConnection(httplib.HTTPSConnection):
def _send_output(self, message_body=None):
    self._buffer.extend(("",""))
    msg = "\r\n".join(self._buffer)
    del self._buffer[:]
    self.send(msg)
    if message_body is not None:
        self.send(message_body)

httplib.HTTPSConnection = HTTPSConnection

If you are using HTTP:// instead of HTTPS:// then replace all instances of HTTPSConnection above with HTTPConnection.

Before people get upset with me, YES, this is a BAD SOLUTION, but it is a way to fix existing code you really don't want to re-engineer to do it some other way.

Why does this fix it? Go look at the original Python source, httplib.py file.