How to stream request body?

[gaby]

I have a server that accepts a streamed request body. How can I stream a local file to the server using this library? I see there's a function for streaming from Server to Local but not from Local to Server.

This can be done using the folliwing:

curl -X POST --data-binary @/path/to/large/file localhost:3000

In Python, this is done by passing the file handler to the data param in requests:

with open(filepath, 'rb') as f:
    r = requests.post(url, data=f)

[earthboundkid]

I’m on mobile, but you can use https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/carlmjohnson/requests#Builder.BodyReader or https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/carlmjohnson/requests#Builder.BodyWriter depending on the source.

[gaby]

Thank you, that's exactly what I was looking for :-)

[earthboundkid]

For files specifically, BodyFile streams the file.