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+"""
+    Deals with multipart POST requests.
+
+    The code is adapted from the recipe found at :
+    http://code.activestate.com/recipes/146306/
+    No author name was given.
+
+    Author : Alexis Mignon (c)
+    email  : alexis.mignon@gmail.Com
+    Date   : 06/08/2011
+
+"""
+
+import http.client
+import mimetypes
+from urllib import parse as urlparse
+
+
+def posturl(url, fields, files):
+    urlparts = urlparse.urlsplit(url)
+    return post_multipart(urlparts[1], urlparts[2], fields, files)
+
+
+def post_multipart(host, selector, fields, files):
+    """
+    Post fields and files to an http host as multipart/form-data.
+    fields is a sequence of (name, value) elements for regular form fields.
+    files is a sequence of (name, filename, value) elements for data to be
+    uploaded as files.
+
+    Return the server's response page.
+    """
+    content_type, body = encode_multipart_formdata(fields, files)
+    h = http.client.HTTPSConnection(host)
+    headers = {"Content-Type": content_type, 'content-length': str(len(body))}
+    h.request("POST", selector, headers=headers)
+    h.send(body)
+    r = h.getresponse()
+    data = r.read()
+    h.close()
+    return r, data
+
+
+def encode_multipart_formdata(fields, files):
+    """
+    fields is a sequence of (name, value) elements for regular form fields.
+    files is a sequence of (name, filename, value) elements for data to be
+    uploaded as files.
+
+    Return (content_type, body) ready for httplib.HTTP instance
+    """
+    BOUNDARY = '----------ThIs_Is_tHe_bouNdaRY_$'
+    CRLF = '\r\n'
+    L = []
+    for (key, value) in fields:
+        L.append('--' + BOUNDARY)
+        L.append('Content-Disposition: form-data; name="%s"' % key)
+        L.append('')
+        L.append(value)
+    for (key, filename, value) in files:
+        filename = filename.encode("utf8")
+        L.append('--' + BOUNDARY)
+        L.append(
+            'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="%s"; filename="%s"' % (
+                key, filename
+            )
+        )
+        L.append('Content-Type: %s' % get_content_type(filename))
+        L.append('')
+        L.append(value)
+    L.append('--' + BOUNDARY + '--')
+    L.append('')
+    body = CRLF.join(L)
+    content_type = 'multipart/form-data; boundary=%s' % BOUNDARY
+    return content_type, body
+
+
+def get_content_type(filename):
+    return mimetypes.guess_type(filename)[0] or 'application/octet-stream'