how do we send multipart/form-data and file information via redfishtool.py ?

[mungayree]

via redfishtool.py, I would like to send content-type as multipart/form-data and file information. I have this command via CURL, but how can we send this via redfishtool.py ?

time curl -k -u Administrator:superuser -X POST -H 'content-type: multipart/form-data' -F 
image_file=@$(pwd)/afile-v130.tgz 
https://<IP>/redfish/v1/UpdateService/Actions/Oem/UpdateService.FwUpldBundle

[mraineri]

Currently that's not really possible. We could accommodate having the tool send a multipart request for something like an operation to the UpdateService when trying to perform an update, but all raw types of requests in the tool currently expect JSON encoding.

[mungayree]

Thanks Mike. CURL supports a -F option, Can the -F option to redfishtool.py support this similar way ? Some OpenBMC implementations doing redfish can take advantage of this for doing vendor firmware/software updates.

On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 6:23 AM Mike Raineri [email protected] wrote:

Currently that's not really possible. We could accommodate having the tool send a multipart request for something like an operation to the UpdateService when trying to perform an update, but all raw types of requests in the tool currently expect JSON encoding.

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