Though I am writing this post under Django, most of it is general and can be used on any server.
Uploading a file is a two-stage process. The first step is on the browser where the user selects a file and uploads it. The upload can be easily handled with a form’s POST method. An input with type='file' will provide the interface to select the file. It should be noted that the form’s enctype must be multipart/form-data. An example:
<form action="/attach" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="file" name="attachment" />
<button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>
When the user clicks on submit, the form is submitted with the selected file to the webserver. If your server is Django, you can easily retrieve this file as:
attachment = request.FILES.get("attachment", None)
Once you get this you can save it locally or upload it to another server. To save the file locally, according to the docs:
def handle_uploaded_file(f):
with open('some/file/name.txt', 'wb+') as destination:
for chunk in f.chunks():
destination.write(chunk)
handle_uploaded_file(attachment)
Or if you want to attach it to an email with Mailgun:
files = [("attachment", attachment), ]
def send_complex_message():
return requests.post(
"https://api.mailgun.net/custom/api/url",
auth=("api", "key-7777777777777777777777777777"),
files=files,
data={"from": "Excited User <excited@example.com>",
"to": "foo@example.com",
"subject": "Hello",
"html": "<html>HTML version of the body</html>"})