Simple file submission client, based on urllib and protobuf

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+"""
+Simple submission client that forms a correct protobuf message and performs a POST
+"""
+
+import submission_pb2, sys, urllib
+
+def send_submission(filename):
+	submission = submission_pb2.Submission()
+	submission.filename = filename
+	submission.data = open(filename, 'rb').read()
+
+	print urllib.urlopen('http://[::1]:5000/submit', submission.SerializeToString()).read()
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+	if len(sys.argv) != 2:
+		sys.stderr.write('usage: ' + sys.argv[0] + ' FILENAME\n')
+		sys.exit(-1)
+	
+	send_submission(sys.argv[1])