From 799bf116fe7e4149ef119bb5e241e77749190278 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Cordasco Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 22:44:50 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Add a small note about requests-toolbelt --- docs/user/quickstart.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/user/quickstart.rst b/docs/user/quickstart.rst index 78b2cc65..116e5a12 100644 --- a/docs/user/quickstart.rst +++ b/docs/user/quickstart.rst @@ -264,6 +264,12 @@ If you want, you can send strings to be received as files:: ... } +In the event you are posting a very large file as a ``multipart/form-data`` +request, you may want to stream the request. By default, ``requests`` does not +support this, but there is a separate package which does - +``requests-toolbelt``. You should read `the toolbelt's documentation +` for more details about how to use it. + Response Status Codes ---------------------