Am I parsing this HTTP POST request properly?

Question

Let me start off by saying, I\'m using the twisted.web framework. Twisted.web\'s file uploading didn\'t work like I wanted it to (it only included

Answer 1

The content-disposition header has no defined order for fields, plus it may contain more fields than just the filename. So your match for filename may fail - there may not even be a filename!

See rfc2183 (edit that's for mail, see rfc1806, rfc2616 and maybe more for http)

Also I would suggest in these kind of regexps to replace every space by \s*, and not to rely on character case.