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barry m.10's avatar
barry m.10
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9 years ago

dbx.files_upload raises ('Connection aborted.', BadStatusLine("''",))

Hi,  I am unable to upload using your Files_upload function. It fails with the following error: requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: ('Connection aborted.', BadStatusLine("''",))  I am on Windo...
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Greg-DB
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9 years ago

Hi Barry, the first parameter to files_upload should be "A string or file-like obj of data.". That's the data that gets uploaded. So, if you want to upload a file, you need to open the file and supply the object (not just the path), as you have in your latter examples.

As far as the BadStatusLine issue is concerned, can you try opening the file in binary mode and let me know if that doesn't help? I.e.:

with open(LOCALFILE, 'rb') as f:

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