I'm trying to simulate browser work. When I'm sending image from browser I get in request.FILES that
<MultiValueDict: {u'file': [<InMemoryUploadedFile: 1.jpg (image/jpeg)>]}>
If I send image from back end POST request:
import httplib
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(HOST, PORT)
headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "Accept": 'text/plain',
"Cookie": cookies, 'X_REQUESTED_WITH': 'XMLHttpRequest'}
conn.request("POST", "/upload/%s" % storyId, open("pictures/1.jpg"), headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
I get:
<MultiValueDict: {}>
What's wrong?
When you send a file from broswer, the Content Type header is multipart/form-data; not application/x-www-form-urlencoded also there are others changes in the request when you send a file. Take a look, here is how a request headers looks like when you send a file from a browser.
POST /upload?upload_progress_id=12344 HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:3000
Content-Length: 1325
Origin: http://localhost:3000
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryePkpFF7tjBAqx29L
<other headers>
------WebKitFormBoundaryePkpFF7tjBAqx29L
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="MAX_FILE_SIZE"
100000
------WebKitFormBoundaryePkpFF7tjBAqx29L
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="uploadedfile"; filename="hello.o"
Content-Type: application/x-object
<file data>
------WebKitFormBoundaryePkpFF7tjBAqx29L--
You can read more here in this stackoverflow answer
Said that, you aren't "simulating" a browser file request correctly.