Question

I have a file, and I need to send its contents to a function. What I am currently doing is as follows:

$ curl --data-urlencode "$( cat my_file.xml)" MyIP

# in function
def receiver(request):
    print request.POST

This returns something like:

<QueryDict: {u'\ufeff<?xml version ': [u' "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>\n<Orders>\n ...</Orders>']}>

In other words, the curl command is correctly sending the data to the django function; however, it is not easily retrievable since the POST data is split up between the request.POST key (`u’\ufeff

In addition the xml file is not properly url-encoded, so I don’t think I can use curl -d @file.

It seems to be taking '\ufeff<?xml version ' as the QueryDict key. How would I pass the file contents here and retrieve it as a single string so I can parse the xml?

Answer 1

There is a very easy (hack) solution for this, use string concatenation on the request.POST dict to re-combine the information:

contents = request.POST.keys()[0] + "=" + request.POST.values()[0]