>>>>> subeen <tamim.shahr...@gmail.com> (s) wrote: >s> Hi, >s> I am trying to send compressed data to a server written in django. But >s> it shows error while decompressing the data in the server. After some >s> experiment I found that the server is not receiving the exact data I >s> am sending.
>s> data = 'hello, this is a test message this is another message' >s> data = zlib.compress(data) >s> # now it looks like: x��H����Q(��,V�D����.�������T�p^~IFj.L.�.e >s> # length is 45 Note: you can't just paste binary data in the message and expect something sensible. Better use the result of 'print data'. >s> in django (view) I receive it: >s> data = request.POST['data'] >s> # now it looks like: x����Q(�,V�D���.����^~IFj.L.�.e >s> # length is 34 >s> Can anybody help me understand the issue and how to get over? How did you post the data? If you post binary data you should indicate this with a proper mime type, like application/octet-stream. Otherwise it might be interpreted as text which it isn't. -- Piet van Oostrum <p...@vanoostrum.org> WWW: http://pietvanoostrum.com/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
