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Greetings.
The attached patch makes it possible to use a file-like
object in httplib requests (useful to PUT large files
without exhausting the machine memory - think a DAV
server).
The supplied object must be able to read().
If Content-Length support is desired, the body object
must either have a __length__ method (so len(body)
works) OR have a stat-able "name" property (file
objects are in the second category).
Having applied this patch the following works:
 import httplib
 import base64
 hh={}
 auth = base64.encodestring("%s:%s" %
("guest","guest")).rstrip()
 hh['Authorization']='Basic %s' % auth
 conn=HTTPConnection('localhost',8080)
 conn.debuglevel=99
 thestream=open(r'\tmp\huge.pdf','rb')
 conn.request('PUT',
 '/dav/streamed',
 thestream,hh)
 thestream.close()
 rsp=conn.getresponse()
 print
rsp.status,"-",rsp.reason,repr(rsp.msg.dict),rsp.read()
 conn.close()
Opening in 'rb' mode - on windoze - is important for
this to work, or the content length header will be
wrong, which is probably BAD.
 
Alessandro Forghieri