'put request' failed with octet-stream file

[mangobowl]

Put Request failed with sending octet-stream file, for example:

Create Session | ${session_name} | http://upload.mytestaddress.com/upload | timeout=60 | max_retries=0
${file_data} | Get Binary File | D:\\\\DSC_6613.jpg
${LocalHeader} | Create Dictionary | Content-type=application/octet-stream
${response}= | Put Request | ${session_name}  | /System/deviceInfo | ${file_data} | headers=${LocalHeader}

which will get error:

FAIL : UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte

btw, if using Put keyword instead of Put Request, it won't get error.

[vkosuri]

can you try

${LocalHeader} | Create Dictionary | Content-type=application/x-www-form-urlencoded

[mangobowl]

@vkosuri I tried and got the same error.

I found where that exception came from:

https://github.com/bulkan/robotframework-requests/blob/11baa3277f1cb728712e26d996200703c15254a8/src/RequestsLibrary/RequestsKeywords.py#L816

and I don't understand why the data need to be decoded? Maybe this is unnecessary for octet-file data?

[vkosuri]

@mangobowl could you try to enable debug flag on create session?