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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Library function to encode data to multipart/form-data format?
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 15:14:55 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2015-12-21, Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> wrote:
> In a message of Mon, 21 Dec 2015 17:51:00 +0000, Grant Edwards writes:
>>Is there a standard library function that can be used to encode data
>>into multipart/form-data format?  IIRC, I looked for this once before
>>and didn't find anything in the library. 
[...]

> Cannibalise this:
> http://code.activestate.com/recipes/146306/
> which just uses standard library things.

Yep, that's what I ended up doing.  I noticed that the code referenced
above doesn't check to make sure the boundary string is not contained
in the data, so I fixed that.

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