Post form values not showing up - python

This is my HTML form
<form method="post">{% csrf_token %}
<strong>Start</strong><br />
Lng: <input type="text" id="start_lng"><br />
Lat: <input type="text" id="start_lat"><br />
<strong>Destination</strong><br />
Lng: <input type="text" id="dest_lng"><br />
Lat: <input type="text" id="dest_lat"><br />
<input type="submit" value="Go" />
</form>
But when i look at my Request information the only POST values i get is the "csrfmiddlewaretoken" and not any of the start_lng, start_lat and so on.

Your HTML <input> elements do not have name attribute and therefore are not considered "successful controls" for submission as defined in the HTML spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.2
A successful control is "valid" for submission. Every successful control has its control name paired with its current value as part of the submitted form data set. A successful control must be defined within a FORM element and must have a control name.

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multiple inputs of the same name in an html form

I have some html code that contains a form. When submitted it sends a post request to a server. The form has various inputs, each with a name and a value, however there are some inputs with the same name.
Here is an example of what I mean:
<form action="http://example.com" method="post">
<input name="name" value="val">
<input name="name" value="val">
<input type="submit">
</form>
First, I am confused as to how there can be two values of the same name. Please note that I have tried removing one of the instances of <input name="name" value="val"> however this returns an error so it seems that both instances are needed.
Second, I am trying to convert this to a python request using the request library.
I have the following request:
requests.get(url = URL, params = PARAMS).json()
Where PARAMS is a dictionary of the various inputs. For example:
PARAMS = {'name':"val"}
However, being a dictionary, I can't have multiple instances of the same value. How do I make this work? Thanks
If there are duplicated names then the values will be in an array with the name. The demo below sends to a live test server and the response is directed to an <iframe>
<form action="https://httpbin.org/post" method="post" target="response">
<input name="name" value="val">
<input name="name" value="val">
<input type="submit">
</form>
<iframe name='response'></iframe>
What you are looking for is to use input arrays. With them, you can have many inputs sharing the same name, and in the server side, the data will be treated as an array. So the HTML would be:
<form action="http://example.com" method="post">
<input name="name[]" value="val1">
<input name="name[]" value="val2">
<input type="submit">
</form>

Flask mail api, not getting request variable properly

I'm trying to access a request from an HTML form, and send it as a mail, but I get a mail with a value of "None",
here is my code:
#app.route("/about", methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def send_message():
name = request.form.get('name')
msg = Message(
subject='Hello ' + str(name),
sender='kristofferlocktolboll#gmail.com',
recipients=
['kristofferlocktolboll#gmail.com'],
html=render_template("about.html"))
mail.send(msg)
confirm_msg = "Your message has been sent!"
return render_template("about.html", confirm_msg=confirm_msg)
I think it might be due to the fact, that I'm casting the object into a string, but if I don't do that, I will get an error due to making a conjunction between a String and another object
EDIT:
here is my html code, I have tried both using post and get as the method, but nothing works.
<form action="/send_message" method="post">
First name: <br>
<input type="text" name="name" size="35"><br>
Last name:<br>
<input type="text" name="lastname" size="35"><br>
Email-address: <br>
<input type="email" name="email" size="35"><br>
Phone-number: <br>
<input type="text" name="phone" size="35"><br>
Enter your message: <br>
<textarea type="text" name="message" rows="7" cols="40"></textarea><br>
</form>
EDIT 2:
When ever I try to display the confirm_msg it is displayed instantly, when I enter the site.
<p>{{confirm_msg}}</p>
Firstly you must add CSRF_TOKEN for your form:
<form method="post" action="/send_message">
<input type="hidden" name="csrf_token" value="{{ csrf_token() }}" />
...
.....
</form>
Also can you tell us in which page you are trying to see <p>{{confirm_msg}}</p> ?

POSTing to AWS S3 Signature Mismatch Error

This is my form
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
</head>
<body>
<form action="http://mybucket.s3.amazonaws.com/" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
Key to upload: <input type="input" name="key" value="user/eric/" /><br />
<input type="hidden" name="acl" value="public-read" />
<input type="hidden" name="AWSAccessKeyId" value="myAWSId" />
<input type="hidden" name="Policy" value="Base64EncodingOfPolicy"/>
<input type="hidden" name="Signature" value="Signature Calculated as urlencode(base64(HMAC-SHA1(secret, policy base64 encoded string same as utf-8 encoded)))" />
File: <input type="file" name="file" /> <br />
<!-- The elements after this will be ignored -->
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Upload to Amazon S3" />
</form>
</html>
This is my policy
{ "expiration": "2014-12-01T12:00:00.000Z",
"conditions": [
{"acl": "public-read" },
{"bucket": "mybucket" },
["starts-with", "$key", "user/eric/"],
]
}
This is the base64 encoded policy
eyAiZXhwaXJhdGlvbiI6ICIyMDE0LTEyLTAxVDEyOjAwOjAwLjAwMFoiLA0KDQogICJjb25kaXRp
b25zIjogWw0KDQogICAgeyJhY2wiOiAicHVibGljLXJlYWQiIH0sDQoNCiAgICB7ImJ1Y2tldCI6
ICJoYWJpdHN1c2VybWVkaWEiIH0sDQoNCiAgICBbInN0YXJ0cy13aXRoIiwgIiRrZXkiLCAidXNl
ci9lcmljLyJdLA0KDQogIF0NCg0KfQ==
I have tried using the base64 encoded string with and without the newlines. Should I keep something specific in mind when using the above encoding and newlines?
I keep getting the SignatureDoesNotMatch error even after several attempts to account for all possible permutations.
I also used the signature verification tool and checked what AWS accepts and it matches. http://aws.amazon.com/code/199
How do I go about debugging this? If you have successfully POSTed using the REST API to S3 can you share the snippet?
Ok I was able to solve this after a while.
This is my python code to generate the signature
import base64
import hmac
from hashlib import sha1
import urllib
input = open("policy.txt", "rb")
policy = input.read()
policy_encoded = base64.b64encode(policy).encode("UTF-8")
secret = "<my_aws_secret>"
print 'Encoded Policy %s' %(policy_encoded)
hashed = hmac.new(secret,policy_encoded, sha1)
#This is the required value
signature = base64.b64encode(hashed.digest())
#This is not required for a HTTP POST form based request, only when it has to be passed in urlencoded format
signature_urlencoded = urllib.quote_plus(base64.b64encode(hashed.digest()))
print 'Signature urlencoded %s' %(signature)
My policy.txt is
{ "expiration": "2014-12-01T12:00:00.000Z",
"conditions": [
{"acl": "public-read" },
{"bucket": "<mybucket>" },
{"success_action_status" : "201"},
["starts-with", "$key", "uploads/"],
]
}
And my form looks like
<form action="http://habitsusermedia.s3.amazonaws.com/" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="hidden" name="acl" value="public-read" />
<input type="input" name="key" value="uploads/${filename}" />
<input type="hidden" name="success_action_status" value="201" />
<input type="hidden" name="AWSAccessKeyId" value="<aws_access_key>" />
<input type="hidden" name="Policy" value="<policy_encoded_as_base64>"/>
<input type="hidden" name="Signature" value="<signature>" />
File: <input type="file" name="file" /> <br />
<!-- The elements after this will be ignored -->
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Upload to Amazon S3" />
</form>
Make sure your AWS bucket is configured to accept POSTS, PUT from any domain. Use the policy generating tool for that.
There is a helpful article explaining these concepts on AWS

How to pass variables to a form before it is processed

I have the following template form, containing several variables.
<form action="https://me.s3.amazonaws.com/" method="post" enctype='multipart/form-data' class="upload-form">
<input type="hidden" name="key" value="videos/{{filename}}">
<input type="hidden" name="AWSAccessKeyId" value="{{access_key}}">
<input type="hidden" name="acl" value="public-read">
<input type="hidden" name="policy" value="{{policy}}">
<input type="hidden" name="signature" value="{{signature}}">
<input type="hidden" name="Content-Type" value="{{content_type}}">
<input name="file" type="file">
<input type="submit" value="Upload" name="upload">
</form>
However, as soon as the submit button is hit, the form is sent to amazon, and I'm not able to pass it variables. This is what I've been trying to do, unsuccessfully --
if 'upload' in request.POST:
policy = base64.b64encode(...)
signature = base64.b64encode(
hmac.new('secret_key', policy, sha).digest())
file = request.POST['files']
filename=file.name
content_type=mimetypes.guess_type(filename)[0]
What do I need to do to pass the variables to the form after the POST request but BEFORE amazon processes the form? Thank you.
You should change your form's action to your django view and in your view you can re-post to https://me.s3.amazonaws.com/:
In your template
<form action="http://mywebsite/upload" method="post" ...
In your view.py:
def upload(request):
# Your treatment here.
# Post the data to amazon S3.
urllib2.urlopen("https://me.s3.amazonaws.com/", your_data)
...
You could change the form to POST to one of your own views, then do your post-processing in your view, and then within your view code, issue a POST to Amazon with the correct values using, say, urllib2 or similar.

Friendly URL with get request form

i have this simple html form:
<form action="test/" method="get" accept-charset="utf-8">
<input type="text" name="first" value="" id="first">
<input type="text" name="second" value="" id="second">
<input type="text" name="third" value="" id="third">
<p><input type="submit" value="Continue →"></p>
</form>
when user click submit button, i want to get friendly URL like this:
www.site.com/test/first/second/third
how can i do this?
Where the user ends up after filling out the form and clicking "Continue" depends on what you set the action attribute in your form tag to. You've currently set it to test/.
If you want them to end up at test/<first_val>/<second_val>/<third_val>/, then you can either use some JavaScript (per pythonFoo's answer), or you can redirect in the view that test/ points to, using HttpResponseRedirect:
def test_view(request):
return HttpResponseRedirect('/test/%s/%s/%s/' % request.POST['first'],
request.POST['second'],
request.POST['third])
<input type="text" name="first" value="" id="first">
<input type="text" name="second" value="" id="second">
<input type="text" name="third" value="" id="third">
<p><input type="button" value="Continue →" onclick="submitFriendly();"></p>
<script type="text/javascript">
function submitFriendly() {
window.location.href = window.location.href + document.getElementById('first').value + '/' + document.getElementById('second').value + '/' + document.getElementById('third').value;
}
</script>
This should work. It doesn't check if all inputs are filled.

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