python: HTTP PUT with unencoded binary data

Question

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to perform an HTTP PUT request with verbatim binary data in Python 2.7 with the standard Python libraries.

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Answer 1

This snipped worked for me to PUT an image:

on HTTPS site. If you don't need HTTPS, use httplib.HTTPConnection(URL) instead.

import httplib
import ssl
API_URL="api-mysight.com"
TOKEN="myDummyToken"
IMAGE_FILE="myimage.jpg"
imageID="myImageID"
URL_PATH_2_USE="/My/image/" + imageID +"?objectId=AAA"
headers = {"Content-Type":"application/octet-stream", "X-Access-Token": TOKEN}
imgData = open(IMAGE_FILE, "rb")
REQUEST="PUT"
conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection(API_URL, context=ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1))
conn.request(REQUEST, URL_PATH_2_USE, imgData, headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
result = response.read()