[Zope] getting post data from a webcam

[Jonathan]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Heymann" <kosh at aesaeion.com>
To: <zope at zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 6:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] getting post data from a webcam


> On Wednesday 09 July 2008, Tino Wildenhain wrote:
>> William Heymann wrote:
>> > I am trying to integrate a webcamera with a site and I can get it to 
>> > POST
>> > the data to a certain url on the server the problem is I can't figure 
>> > out
>> > how to get access to the data. It is not in REQUEST.form
>> >
>> > the relevant request vars are
>> >
>> > ('CONTENT_LENGTH', '111695')
>> > ('CONTENT_TYPE', 'image/jpeg')
>> > ('HTTP_CONTENT_DISPOSITION', 'attachment;
>> > filename="image01-07-29_05-54-26-96.jpg"')
>> >
>> > This is being posted to a python script object inside zope, however if 
>> > I
>> > need to use an external method that is not a problem I just need to
>> > figure out how to get the data.
>>
>> If the file is posted as attachment (similar to file upload) it should
>> appear in the relevant form element as file. You can just use the method
>> .read() on it to get the data (or feed it into factory of image/file)
>>
>
> Unfortunately it is now showing up in REQUEST.form, it is not a POST like 
> what
> you get with a file upload from a form. Zope is showing that the correct 
> size
> of data was sent to that page.
>
>> For this to work the data needs to be sent as
>> enctype="multipart/form-data" (hopefully the cam does this).
>>
>
> It was not sent with that kind of encoding at least not in any way I can 
> tell.
> It was a webcam and all I could give it was a url to POST the data to and 
> it
> did not submit it like a regular form.
>
>> Maybe you send all variables of the request to figure out.
>>
>> Regards
>> Tino

You need to provide more details... try dumping the contents of REQUEST and 
posting them as was suggested earlier.


Jonathan