http file uploader for Windows

Question

We run a web service and in the past we allowed ftp file uploads to our customers.

In the future we want to switch from ftp to http/https.

The ms-windows admins which currently upload data via ftp see no way to use http.

I have no clue either since I don't use ms-windows since 15 years any more.

Is there a simple tool for ms-windows which can do file upload via http?

Required features:

• http upload (client only). Server side runs linux, apache, django
• Needs to run under ms-windows.
• batch processing (upload daily at 6:00 all files in local directory "foo")

Optional features:

• Move local file to a different directory on success
• available for linux
• GUI

Answer 1

Since I found no matching tool, I wrote one myself:

https://github.com/guettli/tbzuploader

tbzuploader

Generic http upload tool.

If the http upload was successfull, files get moved to a "done" sub directory.

The upload is considered successfull by tbzuploader if the servers replies with http status 201 Created

Additional features: Handles pairs of files.

For example you have four files: a.pdf, a.xml, b.pdf, b.xml

The first upload should take a.pdf and a.xml, and the second upload b.pdf and b.xml, then read the docs for --patterns.

Usage

Usage::

    usage: tbzuploader [-h] [--patterns= LIST_OF_PATTERNS]
                       [--min-age-seconds MIN_AGE_SECONDS]
                       [--done-directory DONE_DIRECTORY]
                       [--no-ssl-cert-verification]
                       local_directory url

    positional arguments:
      local_directory
      url

    optional arguments:
      -h, --help            show this help message and exit
      --patterns= LIST_OF_PATTERNS
                            List of file endings which should get uploaded
                            together. Example: --patterns="*.pdf *.xml" The pairs
                            (a.pdf, a.xml) and (b.pdf, b.xml) get uploaded
                            together
      --min-age-seconds MIN_AGE_SECONDS
                            Skip files which are too young. Default: 60
      --done-directory DONE_DIRECTORY
                            files get moved to this directory after successful
                            upload. Defaults to {local_directory}/done
      --no-ssl-cert-verification

Install

Install for usage from tbzuploader at pypi

pip install tbzuploader