uploading file via telnet - python

Im writing a python scrpit to upload files to my file server:
host = "myhost.dev"
tn = telnetlib.Telnet()
tn.open(host, 5202)
print tn.read_until("\n")
fp = "./output"
f = open(fp, "r")
f_body = f.read()
tn.write(f_body)
tn.write("\n")
f.close()
If file has a new line character- 0a, and it is part of a binary data in gzip file, what should I do to escape it ? Can python telnetlib do it by itself ? or should I do it ?
best regards

I think that telnet is not the best option for transfering files, but if you still want to use it for uploading files. You may try to do the following (haven't tried, but I think should work)
#On client side
...
import base64
with open('test.gz','rb') as f:
content = f.read()
content_serialized = base64.b64encode(content)+'\n'
...
#On server side
...
import base64
content = base64.b64decode(content_serialized.rstrip('\n'))
with open('test.gz','wb') as f:
f.write(content)
...

Maybe telnet is not the best solution for this, it is better to use FTP o HTTP.
The telnet protocol is not suitable for transmiting files, and it has some control flow processes that make if dificult to transmit files and special chars.
If you want to use a non standard protocol, it is better so use the socket module, with sockets you don't have this problems with 0a.

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access remote files on server with smb protocol python3

I have a remote server with some files.
smb://ftpsrv/public/
I can be authorized there as an anonymous user. In java I could simply write this code:
SmbFile root = new SmbFile(SMB_ROOT);
And get the ability to work with files inside (it is all I need, one row!), but I can't find how to manage with this task in Python 3, there are a lot of resources, but I think they are not relevant to my problem, because they are frequently tailored for Python 2, and old other approaches. Is there some simple way, similar to Java code above?
Or can somebody provide a real working solution if, for example, I want to access file fgg.txt in smb://ftpsrv/public/ folder. Is there really a handy lib to tackle this problem?
For example on site:
import tempfile
from smb.SMBConnection import SMBConnection
# There will be some mechanism to capture userID, password, client_machine_name, server_name and server_ip
# client_machine_name can be an arbitary ASCII string
# server_name should match the remote machine name, or else the connection will be rejected
conn = SMBConnection(userID, password, client_machine_name, server_name, use_ntlm_v2 = True)
assert conn.connect(server_ip, 139)
file_obj = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile()
file_attributes, filesize = conn.retrieveFile('smbtest', '/rfc1001.txt', file_obj)
# Retrieved file contents are inside file_obj
# Do what you need with the file_obj and then close it
# Note that the file obj is positioned at the end-of-file,
# so you might need to perform a file_obj.seek() if you need
# to read from the beginning
file_obj.close()
Do I seriously need to provide all of these details: conn = SMBConnection(userID, password, client_machine_name, server_name, use_ntlm_v2 = True)?
A simple example of opening a file using urllib and pysmb in Python 3
import urllib
from smb.SMBHandler import SMBHandler
opener = urllib.request.build_opener(SMBHandler)
fh = opener.open('smb://host/share/file.txt')
data = fh.read()
fh.close()
I haven't got an anonymous SMB share ready to test it with, but this code should work.
urllib2 is the python 2 package, in python 3 it was renamed to just urllib and some stuff got moved around.
I think you were asking for Linux, but for completeness I'll share how it works on Windows.
On Windows, it seems that Samba access is supported out of the box with Python's standard library functions:
import glob, os
with open(r'\\USER1-PC\Users\Public\test.txt', 'w') as f:
f.write('hello') # write a file on a distant Samba share
for f in glob.glob(r'\\USER1-PC\Users\**\*', recursive=True):
print(f) # glob works too
if os.path.isfile(f):
print(os.path.getmtime(f)) # we can get filesystem information

ftplib upload and download get stuck

I'm trying to upload a file to my VPS (hosted by GoDaddy) via Python's ftplib library:
from ftplib import FTP
session = FTP('ftp.wangsibo.xyz','wsb','Wsb.139764')
file = open('source10.png','rb')
session.storbinary('store_source10.png', file)
file.close()
session.quit()
However it gets stuck at line 4 (the file is only a few k's and it's taking minutes). The same thing happens when I'm trying to read using retrbinary.
I've tried using FileZilla and it worked fine. Any suggestions?
FTP.storbinary(command, fp[, blocksize, callback, rest])
Store a file in binary transfer mode. command should be an appropriate
STOR command: "STOR filename". fp is an open file object which is read
until EOF using its read() method in blocks of size blocksize to
provide the data to be stored.
store_source10.png is not a command, you can try to use STOR source10.png.
e.g.
from ftplib import FTP
session = FTP('ftp.wangsibo.xyz','wsb','Wsb.139764')
file=open('source10.png','rb')
session.storbinary('STOR source10.png',file)
file.close()
session.quit()

Read file using urllib and write adding extra characters

I have a script that regularly reads a text file on a server and over writes a copy of the text to a local copy of the text file. I have an issue of the process adding extra carriage returns and an extra invisible character after the last character. How do I make an identical copy of the server file?
I use the following to read the file
for link in links:
try:
f = urllib.urlopen(link)
myfile = f.read()
except IOError:
pass
and to write it to the local file
f = open("C:\\localfile.txt", "w")
try:
f.write(myfile)
except NameError:
pass
finally:
f.close()
This is how the file looks on the server
!http://i.imgur.com/rAnUqmJ.jpg
and this is how the file looks locally. Besides, an additional invisible character after the last 75
!http://i.imgur.com/xfs3E8D.jpg
I have seen quite a few similar questions, but not sure how to handle the urllib to read in binary
Any solution please?
If you want to copy a remote file denoted by a URL to a local file i would use urllib.urlretrieve:
import urllib
urllib.urlretrieve("http://anysite.co/foo.gz", "foo.gz")
I think urllib is reading binary.
Try changing
f = open("C:\\localfile.txt", "w")
to
f = open("C:\\localfile.txt", "wb")

PIL.Image.save() to an FTP server

Right now, I have the following code:
pilimg = PILImage.open(img_file_tmp) # img_file_tmp just contains the image to read
pilimg.thumbnail((200,200), PILImage.ANTIALIAS)
pilimg.save(fn, 'PNG') # fn is a filename
This works just fine for saving to a local file pointed to by fn. However, what I would want this to do instead is to save the file on a remote FTP server.
What is the easiest way to achieve this?
Python's ftplib library can initiate an FTP transfer, but PIL cannot write directly to an FTP server.
What you can do is write the result to a file and then upload it to the FTP server using the FTP library. There are complete examples of how to connect in the ftplib manual so I'll focus just on the sending part:
# (assumes you already created an instance of FTP
# as "ftp", and already logged in)
f = open(fn, 'r')
ftp.storbinary("STOR remote_filename.png", f)
If you have enough memory for the compressed image data, you can avoid the intermediate file by having PIL write to a StringIO, and then passing that object into the FTP library:
import StringIO
f = StringIO()
image.save(f, 'PNG')
f.seek(0) # return the StringIO's file pointer to the beginning of the file
# again this assumes you already connected and logged in
ftp.storbinary("STOR remote_filename.png", f)

Serving binary file from web server to client

Usually, when I want to transfer a web server text file to client, here is what I did
import cgi
print "Content-Type: text/plain"
print "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=TEST.txt"
print
filename = "C:\\TEST.TXT"
f = open(filename, 'r')
for line in f:
print line
Works very fine for ANSI file. However, say, I have a binary file a.exe (This file is in web server secret path, and user shall not have direct access to that directory path). I wish to use the similar method to transfer. How I can do so?
What content-type I should use?
Using print seems to have corrupted content received at client side. What is the correct method?
I use the following code.
#!c:/Python27/python.exe -u
import cgi
print "Content-Type: application/octet-stream"
print "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=jstock.exe"
print
filename = "C:\\jstock.exe"
f = open(filename, 'rb')
for line in f:
print line
However, when I compare the downloaded file with original file, it seems there is an extra whitespace (or more) for after every single line.
Agree with the above posters about 'rb' and Content-Type headers.
Additionally:
for line in f:
print line
This might be a problem when encountering \n or \r\n bytes in the binary file. It might be better to do something like this:
import sys
while True:
data = f.read(4096)
sys.stdout.write(data)
if not data:
break
Assuming this is running on windows in a CGI environment, you will want to start the python process with the -u argument, this will ensure stdout isn't in text-mode
When opening a file, you can use open(filename, 'rb') - the 'b' flag marks it as binary. For a general handler, you could use some form of mime magic (I'm not familiar with using it from Python, I've only ever used it from PHP a couple of years ago). For the specific case, .exe is application/octet-stream.
Content-type of .exe is tipically application/octet-stream.
You might want to read your file using open(filename, 'rb') where b means binary.
To avoid the whitespace problem, you could try with:
sys.stdout.write(open(filename,"rb").read())
sys.stdout.flush()
or even better, depending on the size of your file, use the Knio approach:
fo = open(filename, "rb")
while True:
buffer = fo.read(4096)
if buffer:
sys.stdout.write(buffer)
else:
break
fo.close()
For anyone using Windows Server 2008 or 2012 and Python 3, here's an update...
After many hours of experimentation I have found the following to work reliably:
import io
with io.open(sys.stdout.fileno(),"wb") as fout:
with open(filename,"rb") as fin:
while True:
data = fin.read(4096)
fout.write(data)
if not data:
break

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