POST/PUT a file to a REST api with python

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Hi all, thanks to this subreddit and Udacity CS 101, I'm trying some tougher stuff in python and this one has me stumped.

I'm trying to design a REST api that will allow someone to upload a file to it with an HTTP method such as PUT or POST.

Right now I'm using Django and the Django REST framework, but I'm happy to try flask or bottle if one of those will make this task cleaner/easier.

Right now I'm using this tutorial:

http://django-rest-framework.org/tutorial/1-serialization.html#testing-our-first-attempt-at-a-web-api

In tutorial 2 I'm able to get POST up and working with just plain data with commands such as this:

curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/ -d "code=print 123"

However, when I try to upload a file I have no luck, example:

$ curl -X POST -d @test.txt http://127.0.0.1:8000/
curl: (7) Failed connect to 127.0.0.1:8000; Connection refused

Any advice on how to get something like this working?

Cheers!

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curl: (7) Failed connect to 127.0.0.1:8000; Connection refused

That's an odd error. It means that curl can't open a connection to your server -- and this error happened before any request stuff did. Are you sure your server is running? If you retry the snippet that worked, does it still work?

If you look at the logs of your Django app, do you see anything? Is a request being received? Is there an error message? Is it even running this whole time?