Does browser send a get request to fetch local files? - django

When I open a directory in Chrome such as:
file:///Users/me/desktop/
Does the chrome send a get request to OS to fetch the file?

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How to get content of the post request file POSTMAN

I have a problem with sending files to some API. When I do it via my server some pdf files send correctly but some not. But when I send the same pdf via POSTMAN everything works just fine. I am not sure what is the reason (probably POSTMAN encodes it into base64 but from my server, I send it in binary - just a guess). Is there a way to get the sent request file content from postman so that I can imitate it and compare with the request on my server?

Processing a file while its being uploaded in django

My Application requires client to upload a Huge file through a Form . Currently , django stores the file in temp folder and my view function gets hit only after the whole file is uploaded where i can access the file.
My requirement is to be able to get uploaded chunks as soon as they arrive at the server so that i can start the processing .
I checked , there is streaming HTTP response but nothing for HTTP request (POST from client)
Thanks

Postman to open browser and fetch data from website into request parameter

Is it possible for postman(App not Chrome extension) scripts to open an external browser and fetch data from the website (In my case a Temp Pin) as a request parameter?
I did search on the web and didn't found any leads except that POSTMAN now supports opening external browser starting version 6.1.2.

What's the http request for the page source?

I've managed to make a file downloader in C++ (using winsock). It downloads every simple link with a file like: www.page.com/image.png
I want to make it download all of the images from an entire page, such as all the images from a 4chan thread, but I don't know what I should send in the http request to get the page's source. How can I request the source of a webpage?
You don't send anything in the http request, in the manner you're thinking.
An http request sends a single request, for a single document, and returns a single document from the server.
To download an entire page, you will have to parse the downloaded HTML document, extract all the relative links from the HTML source, then issue a separate http request for every image, css, js, etc... referenced from the main document.
This is how tools like wget's --recursive option download entire pages.
If the page is located at the root of the http://www.page.com server, you would send a GET request to the www.page.com server asking for the / resource:
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.page.com
Let's say the page was actually located at http://www.page.com/thepage.html. You would send a GET request asking for /thepage.html instead:
GET /thepage.html HTTP/1.1
Host: www.page.com
Either way, you would then have to parse the resulting HTML to get the individual URLs of all the <img> tags that are on the page.

Safari doesn't save cookies on custom https port

I have a web application that i'm looking to access by https on port 444.
In Safari, when accessing it, my initial request logs me in successfully (i can see the authentication success message in custom HTTP response headers).
But the site does not display successfully, because the request for the CSS file associated with the page fails with Access Denied.
Upon inspection of the headers, i can see that a session is assigned to the first request (for the page, with the Set-Cookie response header), and a new session has been assigned for the CSS request (also with the Set-Cookie response header). No cookies show up in the Web Inspector. My assumption is that the cookie from the first request is not being saved and so the server is assigning a new session.
When accessing the site on the standard https port (443), the behavior is as expected, as it is when accessing it on port 444 with Firefox. I'm on OSX Mountain Lion.
Any thoughts much appreciated!