Creating a PHP page to accept a python HTTP POST

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I am attempting to create an agent to collect data and hopefully over HTTP post the file to a webserver running apache2. I am currently using the the following python script to hopefully push the file.

import requests
txt = {'file': open('/tmp/pysrv01-20151207-212735')}
post = requests.post('someaddr', files=txt)

I understand that possible a simple php page could accept the post and store the file in a directory. Any idea's to something simple and lightweight? Maybe this is a wrong approach.

POST itself is not particularly special when talking about cross-language. In order to accept a POST request in PHP you should look at $_POST the PHP itself should not care where the POST request came from, but may have difficulty parsing the string it receives. — Jake
– Jake, Commented Dec 8, 2015 at 3:46

CodeBoy · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-08 05:40:25Z

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PHP has documentation for handling file uploads. Start reading here http://php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php

You use the $_FILE variable to detect the files included in Python's POST request. Here's an example given in the PHP doc ...

<?php
$uploaddir = '/var/www/uploads/';
$uploadfile = $uploaddir . basename($_FILES['userfile']['name']);
if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'], $uploadfile)) {
    echo "File is valid, and was successfully uploaded.\n";
} else {
    echo "Possible file upload attack!\n";
}

answered Dec 8, 2015 at 5:40

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Steve Horan Over a year ago

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. It was failing however for some key value in $_FILES. Did some more research as managed to get this to work.

<?php     $name       = $_FILES['file']['name'];     $temp_name  = $_FILES['file']['tmp_name'];     if(isset($name)){         if(!empty($name)){             $location = '/var/www/html/uploads/';             if(move_uploaded_file($temp_name, $location.$name)){                 echo 'uploaded';             }         }     }  else {         echo 'please uploaded';     } ?>

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