Python requests post a file

Question

Using CURL I can post a file like

CURL -X POST -d "pxeconfig=`cat boot.txt`" https://ip:8443/tftp/syslinux

My file looks like

$ cat boot.txt
line 1
line 2
line 3

I am trying to achieve the same thing using requests module in python

r=requests.post(url, files={'pxeconfig': open('boot.txt','rb')})

When I open the file on server side, the file contains

{:filename=>"boot.txt", :type=>nil, :name=>"pxeconfig", 
:tempfile=>#<Tempfile:/tmp/RackMultipart20170405-19742-1cylrpm.txt>, 
:head=>"Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"pxeconfig\"; 
filename=\"boot.txt\"\r\n"}

Please suggest how I can achieve this.

Answer 1

Your curl request sends the file contents as form data, as opposed to an actual file! You probably want something like

with open('boot.txt', 'rb') as f:
    r = requests.post(url, data={'pxeconfig': f.read()})