Selenium: Upload file in Google Chrome

Question

Is there any way to upload file in Google Chrome since Selenium RC \"attach_file\" only supports *Firefox? Any suggestion or workarounds are much appreciated.

Answer 1

Uploading file is usually a POST request, so you actually can upload a file without using Selenium; Unless your site requires cookies, then you need to reconstruct the cookies with webdriver.get_cookies() first

A simple example:

# required package:
#   http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MultipartPostHandler/0.1.0

import MultipartPostHandler, urllib2, cookielib

cookies = cookielib.CookieJar()
opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cookies),
                              MultipartPostHandler.MultipartPostHandler)

path_to_file = r"abc.zip"

open_file = open(path_to_file,"rb")
param = { "file": open_file }
req = opener.open("http://www.yoursite.com/uploadfile", param)
open_file.close()