import httplib
import os

"""
snippet to upload big files in couchdb. File test is created with dd:

    dd if=/dev/zero of=test4G bs=1024 count=4096000
    
"""

headers={
    'Accept': 'application/json',
    'Connection': 'keep-alive',
    'Content-Type': 'application/octet-stream',
    'Keep-Alive': '300',
    'Content-Length': os.path.getsize('test4G')}

f = open('test4G')

conn = httplib.HTTPConnection('127.0.0.1:5984')

conn.putrequest('PUT', '/test/blah/test4G?rev=516247523',
        skip_accept_encoding=True)

# Send the HTTP headers.
for header_name in headers:
    conn.putheader(header_name, headers[header_name])
conn.endheaders()

# send content
while 1:
    binarydata = f.read(100000)
    if binarydata == '': break
    conn.send(binarydata)

response = conn.getresponse()

print response.read()