Content-Type in for individual files in python requests

content-type, python, request

Solution

If you make each file specification a tuple, you can specify the mime type as a third parameter:

files = {
    'file1': ('foo.gif', open('foo.gif', 'rb'), 'image/gif'),
    'file2': ('bar.png', open('bar.png', 'rb'), 'image/png'),
}
response = requests.post(url, files=files)

You can give a 4th parameter as well, which must be a dictionary with additional headers for each part.

See the Requests API documentation:

`file-tuple` can be a 2-tuple `('filename', fileobj)`, 3-tuple `('filename', fileobj, 'content_type')` or a 4-tuple `('filename', fileobj, 'content_type', custom_headers)`, where `'content-type'` is a string defining the content type of the given file and `custom_headers` a dict-like object containing additional headers to add for the file.

Problem

I want to request to my server running in python flask with file and some meta information. Hence my request content-Type will be 'multipart/form-data. Is there a way i can set the content type of file like image/jpg, image/gif etc... How do i set the content-type for the file. Is it possible or not

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