upload file to django server using curl

On Django python server, I have customized a URL where users can upload files. Now, problem is that I am successfully able to upload files when I hit the browser but when I try same thing using curl, I am not able to do so.

views.py

import json

from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.template import Context, RequestContext
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response, get_object_or_404

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse

from sdm.models import Document
from sdm.forms import DocumentForm

def lists(request):
   # Handle file upload
   if request.method == 'POST':
     form = DocumentForm(request.POST, request.FILES)
     if form.is_valid():
        newdoc = Document(docfile = request.FILES['docfile'])
        newdoc.save()

        # Redirect to the document list after POST
        return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('sdm:lists'))

else:
    form = DocumentForm() # A empty, unbound form

# Load documents for the list page
documents = Document.objects.all()

# Render list page with the documents and the form
return render_to_response(
    'sdm/lists.html',
    {'documents': documents, 'form': form},
    context_instance=RequestContext(request)
)

........ ........ ........ ........

lists.html

 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>
 <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Minimal Django File Upload Example</title>   
 </head>
 <body>
 <!-- List of uploaded documents -->
 {% if documents %}
    <ul>
    {% for document in documents %}
        <li><a href="{{document.docfile.url }}">{{ document.docfile.name }}</a></li>
    {% endfor %}
    </ul>
 {% else %}
    <p>No documents.</p>
 {% endif %}

    <!-- Upload form. Note enctype attribute! -->
    <form action="{% url sdm:lists %}" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
        {% csrf_token %}
        <p>{{form.non_field_errors }}</p>
        <p>{{form.docfile.label_tag }} {{form.docfile.help_text }}</p>
        <p>
            {{ form.docfile.errors }}
            {{ form.docfile }}
        </p>
        <p><input type="submit" name="press" value="Upload" /></p>
    </form>
 </body>
</html>

On Browser

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On Terminal, I tried

 $ curl --request PUT --upload-file filename http://wings.spectrumserver/sdm/lists

 $ curl --form upload-file=filename  --form press=Upload 

 http:// wings. spectrumserver/sdm/lists

$ curl --upload-file filename http://wings.spectrumserver/sdm/lists
$ curl --upload-file filename press=upload http://wings.spectrumserver/sdm/lists

$ curl -H 'Expect:' -F data=@filename -F submit=Upload wings.spectrumserver/sdm/lists

// In all cases, No error but no file upload

I tried some other variations but nothing seems working out. Also some other commands I tried which gives "NO csrf token error". I also tried removing csrf token entries form html file and setting.py but nothing worked.

I am all new to curl and python both. Main purpose is to upload file using some python script. I thought if I can upload through curl then same things can be replicated in python script with curl library so if this is not working out then can anyone suggest some python code to upload files to this server.

Edit :

$ curl -i -F name=press -F f13 wings.spectrumserver/sdm/lists
Warning: Illegally formatted input field!
curl: option -F: is badly used here
curl: try 'curl --help' or 'curl --manual' for more information

Edit2- Header Response (f13 is new file thats not included)

$ curl -i http://wings.spectrumserver/sdm/lists

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 23:19:18 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)
Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Length: 1263 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

Minimal Django File Upload Example

    <ul>

        <li><a href="/media/documents/2013/10/28/templates.zip">documents/2013/10
    /28/templates.zip</a></li>

        <li><a href="/media/documents/2013/11/07/list">documents/2013/11/07/list</a>
    </li>

        <li><a href="/media/documents/2013/11/07/f1">documents/2013/11/07/f1</a></li>

        <li><a href="/media/documents/2013/11/07/f12">documents/2013/11/07/f12</a></li>

        <li><a href="/media/documents/2013/11/07/hello.html">documents/2013/11
        /07/hello.html</a></li>

    </ul>


    <!-- Upload form. Note enctype attribute! -->
    <form action="/sdm/lists" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">

   <!--            
   -->        <p></p>
        <p><label for="id_docfile">Select a file</label> max. 42 megabytes</p>
        <p>

            <input type="file" name="docfile" id="id_docfile" />
        </p>
        <p><input type="submit" name="press" value="Upload" /></p>
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

Solution

Try something like this:

curl -i --form docfile=@localfilename http://wings.spectrumserver/sdm/lists

If doesn't work, post your header response. -i tells curl to print the header response.