Merge pull request #237 from danielquinn/fix-http-post

Fix http post

docs/consumption.rst

@@ -147,46 +147,83 @@ So, with all that in mind, here's what you do to get it running:
 HTTP POST
 =========
 
-You can also submit a document via HTTP POST.  It doesn't do tags yet, and the
+You can also submit a document via HTTP POST, so long as you do so after
-URL schema isn't concrete, but it's a start.
+authenticating.  To push your document to Paperless, send an HTTP POST to the
-
+server with the following name/value pairs:
-To push your document to Paperless, send an HTTP POST to the server with the
-following name/value pairs:
 
 * ``correspondent``: The name of the document's correspondent.  Note that there
   are restrictions on what characters you can use here.  Specifically,
-  alphanumeric characters, `-`, `,`, `.`, and `'` are ok, everything else it
+  alphanumeric characters, `-`, `,`, `.`, and `'` are ok, everything else is
   out.  You also can't use the sequence ` - ` (space, dash, space).
 * ``title``: The title of the document.  The rules for characters is the same
   here as the correspondent.
-* ``signature``: For security reasons, we have the correspondent send a
+* ``document``: The file you're uploading
-  signature using a "shared secret" method to make sure that random strangers
-  don't start uploading stuff to your server.  The means of generating this
-  signature is defined below.
 
 Specify ``enctype="multipart/form-data"``, and then POST your file with::
 
     Content-Disposition: form-data; name="document"; filename="whatever.pdf"
 
+An example of this in HTML is a typical form:
 
-.. _consumption-http-signature:
+.. code:: html
 
-Generating the Signature
+    <form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
-------------------------
+        <input type="text" name="correspondent" value="My Correspondent" />
+        <input type="text" name="title" value="My Title" />
+        <input type="file" name="document" />
+        <input type="submit" name="go" value="Do the thing" />
+    </form>
 
-Generating a signature based a shared secret is pretty simple: define a secret,
+But a potentially more useful way to do this would be in Python.  Here we use
-and store it on the server and the client.  Then use that secret, along with
+the requests library to handle basic authentication and to send the POST data
-the text you want to verify to generate a string that you can use for
+to the URL.
-verification.
-
-In the case of Paperless, you configure the server with the secret by setting
-``UPLOAD_SHARED_SECRET``.  Then on your client, you generate your signature by
-concatenating the correspondent, title, and the secret, and then using sha256
-to generate a hexdigest.
-
-If you're using Python, this is what that looks like:
 
 .. code:: python
 
+    import os
+
     from hashlib import sha256
-    signature = sha256(correspondent + title + secret).hexdigest()
+
+    import requests
+    from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
+
+    # You authenticate via BasicAuth or with a session id.
+    # We use BasicAuth here
+    username = "my-username"
+    password = "my-super-secret-password"
+
+    # Where you have Paperless installed and listening
+    url = "http://localhost:8000/push"
+
+    # Document metadata
+    correspondent = "Test Correspondent"
+    title = "Test Title"
+
+    # The local file you want to push
+    path = "/path/to/some/directory/my-document.pdf"
+
+
+    with open(path, "rb") as f:
+
+        response = requests.post(
+            url=url,
+            data={"title": title,  "correspondent": correspondent},
+            files={"document": (os.path.basename(path), f, "application/pdf")},
+            auth=HTTPBasicAuth(username, password),
+            allow_redirects=False
+        )
+
+        if response.status_code == 202:
+
+            # Everything worked out ok
+            print("Upload successful")
+
+        else:
+
+            # If you don't get a 202, it's probably because your credentials
+            # are wrong or something.  This will give you a rough idea of what
+            # happened.
+
+            print("We got HTTP status code: {}".format(response.status_code))
+            for k, v in response.headers.items():
+                print("{}: {}".format(k, v))

src/documents/forms.py

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ import magic
 import os
 
 from datetime import datetime
-from hashlib import sha256
 from time import mktime
 
 from django import forms
@@ -32,10 +31,9 @@ class UploadForm(forms.Form):
         required=False
     )
     document = forms.FileField()
-    signature = forms.CharField(max_length=256)
 
     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        forms.Form.__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+        forms.Form.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
         self._file_type = None
 
     def clean_correspondent(self):
@@ -82,17 +80,6 @@ class UploadForm(forms.Form):
 
         return document
 
-    def clean(self):
-
-        corresp = self.cleaned_data.get("correspondent")
-        title = self.cleaned_data.get("title")
-        signature = self.cleaned_data.get("signature")
-
-        if sha256(corresp + title + self.SECRET).hexdigest() == signature:
-            return self.cleaned_data
-
-        raise forms.ValidationError("The signature provided did not validate")
-
     def save(self):
         """
         Since the consumer already does a lot of work, it's easier just to save
@@ -104,7 +91,7 @@ class UploadForm(forms.Form):
         title = self.cleaned_data.get("title")
         document = self.cleaned_data.get("document")
 
-        t = int(mktime(datetime.now()))
+        t = int(mktime(datetime.now().timetuple()))
         file_name = os.path.join(
             Consumer.CONSUME,
             "{} - {}.{}".format(correspondent, title, self._file_type)

src/documents/views.py

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-from django.http import HttpResponse
+from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpResponseBadRequest
-from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_exempt
 from django.views.generic import DetailView, FormView, TemplateView
 from django_filters.rest_framework import DjangoFilterBackend
 from paperless.db import GnuPG
@@ -81,15 +80,12 @@ class PushView(SessionOrBasicAuthMixin, FormView):
 
     form_class = UploadForm
 
-    @classmethod
-    def as_view(cls, **kwargs):
-        return csrf_exempt(FormView.as_view(**kwargs))
-
     def form_valid(self, form):
-        return HttpResponse("1")
+        form.save()
+        return HttpResponse("1", status=202)
 
     def form_invalid(self, form):
-        return HttpResponse("0")
+        return HttpResponseBadRequest(str(form.errors))
 
 
 class CorrespondentViewSet(ModelViewSet):

src/paperless/urls.py

@@ -1,27 +1,12 @@
-"""paperless URL Configuration
-
-The `urlpatterns` list routes URLs to views. For more information please see:
-    https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/http/urls/
-Examples:
-Function views
-    1. Add an import:  from my_app import views
-    2. Add a URL to urlpatterns:  url(r'^$', views.home, name='home')
-Class-based views
-    1. Add an import:  from other_app.views import Home
-    2. Add a URL to urlpatterns:  url(r'^$', Home.as_view(), name='home')
-Including another URLconf
-    1. Add an import:  from blog import urls as blog_urls
-    2. Import the include() function: from django.conf.urls import url, include
-    3. Add a URL to urlpatterns:  url(r'^blog/', include(blog_urls))
-"""
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.conf.urls import url, static, include
 from django.contrib import admin
+from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_exempt
 
 from rest_framework.routers import DefaultRouter
 
 from documents.views import (
-    IndexView, FetchView, PushView,
+    FetchView, PushView,
     CorrespondentViewSet, TagViewSet, DocumentViewSet, LogViewSet
 )
 from reminders.views import ReminderViewSet
@@ -42,9 +27,6 @@ urlpatterns = [
     ),
     url(r"^api/", include(router.urls, namespace="drf")),
 
-    # Normal pages (coming soon)
-    # url(r"^$", IndexView.as_view(), name="index"),
-
     # File downloads
     url(
         r"^fetch/(?P<kind>doc|thumb)/(?P<pk>\d+)$",
@@ -59,7 +41,10 @@ urlpatterns = [
 ] + static.static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
 
 if settings.SHARED_SECRET:
-    urlpatterns.insert(0, url(r"^push$", PushView.as_view(), name="push"))
+    urlpatterns.insert(
+        0,
+        url(r"^push$", csrf_exempt(PushView.as_view()), name="push")
+    )
 
 # Text in each page's <h1> (and above login form).
 admin.site.site_header = 'Paperless'