__filename__ = "content.py" __author__ = "Bob Mottram" __license__ = "AGPL3+" __version__ = "1.1.0" __maintainer__ = "Bob Mottram" __email__ = "bob@freedombone.net" __status__ = "Production" import os import email.parser from shutil import copyfile from utils import loadJson from utils import fileLastModified from utils import getLinkPrefixes def removeHtmlTag(htmlStr: str, tag: str) -> str: """Removes a given tag from a html string """ tagFound = True while tagFound: matchStr = ' ' + tag + '="' if matchStr not in htmlStr: tagFound = False break sections = htmlStr.split(matchStr, 1) if '"' not in sections[1]: tagFound = False break htmlStr = sections[0] + sections[1].split('"', 1)[1] return htmlStr def removeQuotesWithinQuotes(content: str) -> str: """Removes any blockquote inside blockquote """ if '
' not in content: return content if '' not in content: return content ctr = 1 found = True while found: prefix = content.split('
', ctr)[0] + '')[0] if '' quotedStr = content.split('')[1] quotedStr = quotedStr.split('', ctr)[1] if '' not in quotedStr: found = False else: endStr = quotedStr.split('
' not in endStr: found = False if '' in quotedStr: quotedStr = quotedStr.replace('', '') content = prefix + quotedStr + '' + endStr ctr += 1 return content def htmlReplaceEmailQuote(content: str) -> str: """Replaces an email style quote "> Some quote" with html blockquote """ # replace quote paragraph if '"' in content: if '"
' in content: if content.count('"') == content.count('"
'): content = content.replace('"', '
') content = content.replace('"', '') if '>\u201c' in content: if '\u201d<' in content: if content.count('>\u201c') == content.count('\u201d<'): content = content.replace('>\u201c', '>') content = content.replace('\u201d<', '<') # replace email style quote if '>> ' not in content: return content contentStr = content.replace('', '') contentLines = contentStr.split('
') newContent = '' for lineStr in contentLines: if not lineStr: continue if '>> ' not in lineStr: if lineStr.startswith('> '): lineStr = lineStr.replace('> ', '') lineStr = lineStr.replace('>', '' else: newContent += '
') newContent += '' + lineStr + '
' + lineStr + '
' else: lineStr = lineStr.replace('>> ', '>') if lineStr.startswith('>'): lineStr = lineStr.replace('>', '', 1) else: lineStr = lineStr.replace('>', '' return removeQuotesWithinQuotes(newContent) def htmlReplaceQuoteMarks(content: str) -> str: """Replaces quotes with html formatting "hello" becomes
') newContent += '' + lineStr + '
hello""" if '"' not in content: if '"' not in content: return content # only if there are a few quote marks if content.count('"') > 4: return content if content.count('"') > 4: return content newContent = content if '"' in content: sections = content.split('"') if len(sections) > 1: newContent = '' openQuote = True markup = False for ch in content: currChar = ch if ch == '<': markup = True elif ch == '>': markup = False elif ch == '"' and not markup: if openQuote: currChar = '“' else: currChar = '”' openQuote = not openQuote newContent += currChar if '"' in newContent: openQuote = True content = newContent newContent = '' ctr = 0 sections = content.split('"') noOfSections = len(sections) for s in sections: newContent += s if ctr < noOfSections - 1: if openQuote: newContent += '“' else: newContent += '”' openQuote = not openQuote ctr += 1 return newContent def dangerousMarkup(content: str, allowLocalNetworkAccess: bool) -> bool: """Returns true if the given content contains dangerous html markup """ if '<' not in content: return False if '>' not in content: return False contentSections = content.split('<') invalidPartials = () if not allowLocalNetworkAccess: invalidPartials = ('127.0.', '192.168', '10.0.') invalidStrings = ('script', 'canvas', 'style', 'abbr', 'frame', 'iframe', 'html', 'body', 'hr') for markup in contentSections: if '>' not in markup: continue markup = markup.split('>')[0].strip() for partialMatch in invalidPartials: if partialMatch in markup: return True if ' ' not in markup: for badStr in invalidStrings: if badStr in markup: return True else: for badStr in invalidStrings: if badStr + ' ' in markup: return True return False def dangerousCSS(filename: str, allowLocalNetworkAccess: bool) -> bool: """Returns true is the css file contains code which can create security problems """ if not os.path.isfile(filename): return False with open(filename, 'r') as fp: content = fp.read().lower() cssMatches = ('behavior:', ':expression', '?php', '.php', 'google') for match in cssMatches: if match in content: return True # an attacker can include html inside of the css # file as a comment and this may then be run from the html if dangerousMarkup(content, allowLocalNetworkAccess): return True return False def switchWords(baseDir: str, nickname: str, domain: str, content: str) -> str: """Performs word replacements. eg. Trump -> The Orange Menace """ switchWordsFilename = baseDir + '/accounts/' + \ nickname + '@' + domain + '/replacewords.txt' if not os.path.isfile(switchWordsFilename): return content with open(switchWordsFilename, 'r') as fp: for line in fp: replaceStr = line.replace('\n', '').replace('\r', '') wordTransform = None if '->' in replaceStr: wordTransform = replaceStr.split('->') elif ':' in replaceStr: wordTransform = replaceStr.split(':') elif ',' in replaceStr: wordTransform = replaceStr.split(',') elif ';' in replaceStr: wordTransform = replaceStr.split(';') elif '-' in replaceStr: wordTransform = replaceStr.split('-') if not wordTransform: continue if len(wordTransform) == 2: replaceStr1 = wordTransform[0].strip().replace('"', '') replaceStr2 = wordTransform[1].strip().replace('"', '') content = content.replace(replaceStr1, replaceStr2) return content def replaceEmojiFromTags(content: str, tag: [], messageType: str) -> str: """Uses the tags to replace :emoji: with html image markup """ for tagItem in tag: if not tagItem.get('type'): continue if tagItem['type'] != 'Emoji': continue if not tagItem.get('name'): continue if not tagItem.get('icon'): continue if not tagItem['icon'].get('url'): continue if '/' not in tagItem['icon']['url']: continue if tagItem['name'] not in content: continue iconName = tagItem['icon']['url'].split('/')[-1] if iconName: if len(iconName) > 1: if iconName[0].isdigit(): if '.' in iconName: iconName = iconName.split('.')[0] # see https://unicode.org/ # emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html if '-' not in iconName: # a single code try: replaceChar = chr(int("0x" + iconName, 16)) content = content.replace(tagItem['name'], replaceChar) except BaseException: pass else: # sequence of codes iconCodes = iconName.split('-') iconCodeSequence = '' for icode in iconCodes: try: iconCodeSequence += chr(int("0x" + icode, 16)) except BaseException: iconCodeSequence = '' break if iconCodeSequence: content = content.replace(tagItem['name'], iconCodeSequence) htmlClass = 'emoji' if messageType == 'post header': htmlClass = 'emojiheader' if messageType == 'profile': htmlClass = 'emojiprofile' emojiHtml = "" content = content.replace(tagItem['name'], emojiHtml) return content def addMusicTag(content: str, tag: str) -> str: """If a music link is found then ensure that the post is tagged appropriately """ if '#podcast' in content or '#documentary' in content: return content if '#' not in tag: tag = '#' + tag if tag in content: return content musicSites = ('soundcloud.com', 'bandcamp.com') musicSiteFound = False for site in musicSites: if site+'/' in content: musicSiteFound = True break if not musicSiteFound: return content return ':music: ' + content + ' ' + tag + ' ' def addWebLinks(content: str) -> str: """Adds markup for web links """ if ':' not in content: return content prefixes = getLinkPrefixes() # do any of these prefixes exist within the content? prefixFound = False for prefix in prefixes: if prefix in content: prefixFound = True break # if there are no prefixes then just keep the content we have if not prefixFound: return content maxLinkLength = 40 content = content.replace('\r', '') words = content.replace('\n', ' --linebreak-- ').split(' ') replaceDict = {} for w in words: if ':' not in w: continue # does the word begin with a prefix? prefixFound = False for prefix in prefixes: if w.startswith(prefix): prefixFound = True break if not prefixFound: continue # the word contains a prefix if w.endswith('.') or w.endswith(';'): w = w[:-1] markup = '' for prefix in prefixes: if w.startswith(prefix): markup += '' + prefix + '' break linkText = w for prefix in prefixes: linkText = linkText.replace(prefix, '') # prevent links from becoming too long if len(linkText) > maxLinkLength: markup += '' + \ linkText[:maxLinkLength] + '' markup += '' + \ linkText[maxLinkLength:] + '' else: markup += '' + linkText + '' replaceDict[w] = markup # do the replacements for url, markup in replaceDict.items(): content = content.replace(url, markup) # replace any line breaks content = content.replace(' --linebreak-- ', '
') return content def validHashTag(hashtag: str) -> bool: """Returns true if the give hashtag contains valid characters """ # long hashtags are not valid if len(hashtag) >= 32: return False # TODO: this may need to be an international character set validChars = set('0123456789' + 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' + 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ') if set(hashtag).issubset(validChars): return True return False def addHashTags(wordStr: str, httpPrefix: str, domain: str, replaceHashTags: {}, postHashtags: {}) -> bool: """Detects hashtags and adds them to the replacements dict Also updates the hashtags list to be added to the post """ if replaceHashTags.get(wordStr): return True hashtag = wordStr[1:] if not validHashTag(hashtag): return False hashtagUrl = httpPrefix + "://" + domain + "/tags/" + hashtag postHashtags[hashtag] = { 'href': hashtagUrl, 'name': '#' + hashtag, 'type': 'Hashtag' } replaceHashTags[wordStr] = "#" + \ hashtag + "" return True def loadEmojiDict(emojiDataFilename: str, emojiDict: {}) -> None: """Creates an emoji dictionary based on emoji/emoji-data.txt """ if not os.path.isfile(emojiDataFilename): return with open(emojiDataFilename, "r") as fileHandler: for line in fileHandler: if len(line) < 5: continue if line.startswith('#'): continue if '; Emoji' not in line: continue if ')' not in line: continue emojiUnicode = line.split(' ')[0] if len(emojiUnicode) < 4: continue if '..' in emojiUnicode: emojiUnicode = emojiUnicode.split('..')[0] emojiName = line.split(')', 1)[1].strip() emojiName = emojiName.replace('\n', '').replace('\r', '') emojiName = emojiName.replace(' ', '').replace('-', '') if '..' in emojiName: emojiName = emojiName.split('..')[0] emojiDict[emojiName.lower()] = emojiUnicode def addEmoji(baseDir: str, wordStr: str, httpPrefix: str, domain: str, replaceEmoji: {}, postTags: {}, emojiDict: {}) -> bool: """Detects Emoji and adds them to the replacements dict Also updates the tags list to be added to the post """ if not wordStr.startswith(':'): return False if not wordStr.endswith(':'): return False if len(wordStr) < 3: return False if replaceEmoji.get(wordStr): return True # remove leading and trailing : characters emoji = wordStr[1:] emoji = emoji[:-1] # is the text of the emoji valid? if not validHashTag(emoji): return False if not emojiDict.get(emoji): return False emojiFilename = baseDir + '/emoji/' + emojiDict[emoji] + '.png' if not os.path.isfile(emojiFilename): return False emojiUrl = httpPrefix + "://" + domain + \ "/emoji/" + emojiDict[emoji] + '.png' postTags[emoji] = { 'icon': { 'mediaType': 'image/png', 'type': 'Image', 'url': emojiUrl }, 'name': ':'+emoji+':', "updated": fileLastModified(emojiFilename), "id": emojiUrl.replace('.png', ''), 'type': 'Emoji' } return True def addMention(wordStr: str, httpPrefix: str, following: str, replaceMentions: {}, recipients: [], tags: {}) -> bool: """Detects mentions and adds them to the replacements dict and recipients list """ possibleHandle = wordStr[1:] # @nick if following and '@' not in possibleHandle: # fall back to a best effort match against the following list # if no domain was specified. eg. @nick possibleNickname = possibleHandle for follow in following: if follow.startswith(possibleNickname + '@'): replaceDomain = \ follow.replace('\n', '').replace('\r', '').split('@')[1] recipientActor = httpPrefix + "://" + \ replaceDomain + "/users/" + possibleNickname if recipientActor not in recipients: recipients.append(recipientActor) tags[wordStr] = { 'href': recipientActor, 'name': wordStr, 'type': 'Mention' } replaceMentions[wordStr] = \ "@" + possibleNickname + \ "" return True return False possibleNickname = None possibleDomain = None if '@' not in possibleHandle: return False possibleNickname = possibleHandle.split('@')[0] if not possibleNickname: return False possibleDomain = \ possibleHandle.split('@')[1].strip('\n').strip('\r') if not possibleDomain: return False if following: for follow in following: if follow.replace('\n', '').replace('\r', '') != possibleHandle: continue recipientActor = httpPrefix + "://" + \ possibleDomain + "/users/" + possibleNickname if recipientActor not in recipients: recipients.append(recipientActor) tags[wordStr] = { 'href': recipientActor, 'name': wordStr, 'type': 'Mention' } replaceMentions[wordStr] = \ "@" + possibleNickname + \ "" return True # @nick@domain if not (possibleDomain == 'localhost' or '.' in possibleDomain): return False recipientActor = httpPrefix + "://" + \ possibleDomain + "/users/" + possibleNickname if recipientActor not in recipients: recipients.append(recipientActor) tags[wordStr] = { 'href': recipientActor, 'name': wordStr, 'type': 'Mention' } replaceMentions[wordStr] = \ "@" + possibleNickname + \ "" return True def replaceContentDuplicates(content: str) -> str: """Replaces invalid duplicates within content """ while '<<' in content: content = content.replace('<<', '<') while '>>' in content: content = content.replace('>>', '>') content = content.replace('<\\p>', '') return content def removeTextFormatting(content: str) -> str: """Removes markup for bold, italics, etc """ if '<' not in content: return content removeMarkup = ('b', 'i', 'ul', 'ol', 'li', 'em', 'strong', 'blockquote', 'h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'h4', 'h5') for markup in removeMarkup: content = content.replace('<' + markup + '>', '') content = content.replace('' + markup + '>', '') content = content.replace('<' + markup.upper() + '>', '') content = content.replace('' + markup.upper() + '>', '') return content def removeLongWords(content: str, maxWordLength: int, longWordsList: []) -> str: """Breaks up long words so that on mobile screens this doesn't disrupt the layout """ content = replaceContentDuplicates(content) if ' ' not in content: # handle a single very long string with no spaces contentStr = content.replace('', '').replace(r'<\p>', '') if '://' not in contentStr: if len(contentStr) > maxWordLength: if '
' in content: content = '
' + contentStr[:maxWordLength] + r'<\p>' else: content = content[:maxWordLength] return content words = content.split(' ') if not longWordsList: longWordsList = [] for wordStr in words: if len(wordStr) > maxWordLength: if wordStr not in longWordsList: longWordsList.append(wordStr) for wordStr in longWordsList: if wordStr.startswith('<'): continue if len(wordStr) == 76: if wordStr.upper() == wordStr: # tox address continue if '=\"' in wordStr: continue if '@' in wordStr: if '@@' not in wordStr: continue if '=.ed25519' in wordStr: continue if '.onion' in wordStr: continue if '.i2p' in wordStr: continue if 'https:' in wordStr: continue elif 'http:' in wordStr: continue elif 'i2p:' in wordStr: continue elif 'gnunet:' in wordStr: continue elif 'dat:' in wordStr: continue elif 'hyper:' in wordStr: continue elif 'briar:' in wordStr: continue if '<' in wordStr: replaceWord = wordStr.split('<', 1)[0] content = content.replace(wordStr, replaceWord) wordStr = replaceWord if '/' in wordStr: continue if len(wordStr[maxWordLength:]) < maxWordLength: content = content.replace(wordStr, wordStr[:maxWordLength] + '\n' + wordStr[maxWordLength:]) else: content = content.replace(wordStr, wordStr[:maxWordLength]) if content.startswith('
'): if not content.endswith('
'): content = content.strip() + '' return content def loadAutoTags(baseDir: str, nickname: str, domain: str) -> []: """Loads automatic tags file and returns a list containing the lines of the file """ filename = baseDir + '/accounts/' + \ nickname + '@' + domain + '/autotags.txt' if not os.path.isfile(filename): return [] with open(filename, "r") as f: return f.readlines() return [] def autoTag(baseDir: str, nickname: str, domain: str, wordStr: str, autoTagList: [], appendTags: []): """Generates a list of tags to be automatically appended to the content """ for tagRule in autoTagList: if wordStr not in tagRule: continue if '->' not in tagRule: continue match = tagRule.split('->')[0].strip() if match != wordStr: continue tagName = tagRule.split('->')[1].strip() if tagName.startswith('#'): if tagName not in appendTags: appendTags.append(tagName) else: if '#' + tagName not in appendTags: appendTags.append('#' + tagName) def addHtmlTags(baseDir: str, httpPrefix: str, nickname: str, domain: str, content: str, recipients: [], hashtags: {}, isJsonContent=False) -> str: """ Replaces plaintext mentions such as @nick@domain into html by matching against known following accounts """ if content.startswith(''): content = htmlReplaceEmailQuote(content) return htmlReplaceQuoteMarks(content) maxWordLength = 40 content = content.replace('\r', '') content = content.replace('\n', ' --linebreak-- ') content = addMusicTag(content, 'nowplaying') contentSimplified = \ content.replace(',', ' ').replace(';', ' ').replace('- ', ' ') contentSimplified = contentSimplified.replace('. ', ' ').strip() if contentSimplified.endswith('.'): contentSimplified = contentSimplified[:len(contentSimplified)-1] words = contentSimplified.split(' ') # remove . for words which are not mentions newWords = [] for wordIndex in range(0, len(words)): wordStr = words[wordIndex] if wordStr.endswith('.'): if not wordStr.startswith('@'): wordStr = wordStr[:-1] if wordStr.startswith('.'): wordStr = wordStr[1:] newWords.append(wordStr) words = newWords replaceMentions = {} replaceHashTags = {} replaceEmoji = {} emojiDict = {} originalDomain = domain if ':' in domain: domain = domain.split(':')[0] followingFilename = baseDir + '/accounts/' + \ nickname + '@' + domain + '/following.txt' # read the following list so that we can detect just @nick # in addition to @nick@domain following = None if '@' in words: if os.path.isfile(followingFilename): with open(followingFilename, "r") as f: following = f.readlines() # extract mentions and tags from words longWordsList = [] prevWordStr = '' autoTagsList = loadAutoTags(baseDir, nickname, domain) appendTags = [] for wordStr in words: wordLen = len(wordStr) if wordLen > 2: if wordLen > maxWordLength: longWordsList.append(wordStr) firstChar = wordStr[0] if firstChar == '@': if addMention(wordStr, httpPrefix, following, replaceMentions, recipients, hashtags): prevWordStr = '' continue elif firstChar == '#': if addHashTags(wordStr, httpPrefix, originalDomain, replaceHashTags, hashtags): prevWordStr = '' continue elif ':' in wordStr: wordStr2 = wordStr.split(':')[1] # print('TAG: emoji located - '+wordStr) if not emojiDict: # emoji.json is generated so that it can be customized and # the changes will be retained even if default_emoji.json # is subsequently updated if not os.path.isfile(baseDir + '/emoji/emoji.json'): copyfile(baseDir + '/emoji/default_emoji.json', baseDir + '/emoji/emoji.json') emojiDict = loadJson(baseDir + '/emoji/emoji.json') # print('TAG: looking up emoji for :'+wordStr2+':') addEmoji(baseDir, ':' + wordStr2 + ':', httpPrefix, originalDomain, replaceEmoji, hashtags, emojiDict) else: if autoTag(baseDir, nickname, domain, wordStr, autoTagsList, appendTags): prevWordStr = '' continue if prevWordStr: if autoTag(baseDir, nickname, domain, prevWordStr + ' ' + wordStr, autoTagsList, appendTags): prevWordStr = '' continue prevWordStr = wordStr # add any auto generated tags for appended in appendTags: content = content + ' ' + appended addHashTags(appended, httpPrefix, originalDomain, replaceHashTags, hashtags) # replace words with their html versions for wordStr, replaceStr in replaceMentions.items(): content = content.replace(wordStr, replaceStr) for wordStr, replaceStr in replaceHashTags.items(): content = content.replace(wordStr, replaceStr) if not isJsonContent: for wordStr, replaceStr in replaceEmoji.items(): content = content.replace(wordStr, replaceStr) content = addWebLinks(content) if longWordsList: content = removeLongWords(content, maxWordLength, longWordsList) content = content.replace(' --linebreak-- ', '
') content = htmlReplaceEmailQuote(content) return '
' + htmlReplaceQuoteMarks(content) + '
' def getMentionsFromHtml(htmlText: str, matchStr=" []: """Extracts mentioned actors from the given html content string """ mentions = [] if matchStr not in htmlText: return mentions mentionsList = htmlText.split(matchStr) for mentionStr in mentionsList: if '"' not in mentionStr: continue actorStr = mentionStr.split('"')[0] if actorStr.startswith('http') or \ actorStr.startswith('gnunet') or \ actorStr.startswith('i2p') or \ actorStr.startswith('hyper') or \ actorStr.startswith('dat:'): if actorStr not in mentions: mentions.append(actorStr) return mentions def extractMediaInFormPOST(postBytes, boundary, name: str): """Extracts the binary encoding for image/video/audio within a http form POST Returns the media bytes and the remaining bytes """ imageStartBoundary = b'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="' + \ name.encode('utf8', 'ignore') + b'";' imageStartLocation = postBytes.find(imageStartBoundary) if imageStartLocation == -1: return None, postBytes # bytes after the start boundary appears mediaBytes = postBytes[imageStartLocation:] # look for the next boundary imageEndBoundary = boundary.encode('utf8', 'ignore') imageEndLocation = mediaBytes.find(imageEndBoundary) if imageEndLocation == -1: # no ending boundary return mediaBytes, postBytes[:imageStartLocation] # remaining bytes after the end of the image remainder = mediaBytes[imageEndLocation:] # remove bytes after the end boundary mediaBytes = mediaBytes[:imageEndLocation] # return the media and the before+after bytes return mediaBytes, postBytes[:imageStartLocation] + remainder def saveMediaInFormPOST(mediaBytes, debug: bool, filenameBase=None) -> (str, str): """Saves the given media bytes extracted from http form POST Returns the filename and attachment type """ if not mediaBytes: if debug: print('DEBUG: No media found within POST') return None, None mediaLocation = -1 searchStr = '' filename = None # directly search the binary array for the beginning # of an image extensionList = { 'png': 'image/png', 'jpeg': 'image/jpeg', 'gif': 'image/gif', 'webp': 'image/webp', 'avif': 'image/avif', 'mp4': 'video/mp4', 'ogv': 'video/ogv', 'mp3': 'audio/mpeg', 'ogg': 'audio/ogg' } detectedExtension = None for extension, contentType in extensionList.items(): searchStr = b'Content-Type: ' + contentType.encode('utf8', 'ignore') mediaLocation = mediaBytes.find(searchStr) if mediaLocation > -1: # image/video/audio binaries if extension == 'jpeg': extension = 'jpg' elif extension == 'mpeg': extension = 'mp3' filename = filenameBase + '.' + extension attachmentMediaType = \ searchStr.decode().split('/')[0].replace('Content-Type: ', '') detectedExtension = extension break if not filename: return None, None # locate the beginning of the image, after any # carriage returns startPos = mediaLocation + len(searchStr) for offset in range(1, 8): if mediaBytes[startPos+offset] != 10: if mediaBytes[startPos+offset] != 13: startPos += offset break # remove any existing image files with a different format extensionTypes = ('png', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'gif', 'webp', 'avif') for ex in extensionTypes: if ex == detectedExtension: continue possibleOtherFormat = \ filename.replace('.temp', '').replace('.' + detectedExtension, '.' + ex) if os.path.isfile(possibleOtherFormat): os.remove(possibleOtherFormat) fd = open(filename, 'wb') fd.write(mediaBytes[startPos:]) fd.close() return filename, attachmentMediaType def extractTextFieldsInPOST(postBytes, boundary, debug: bool) -> {}: """Returns a dictionary containing the text fields of a http form POST The boundary argument comes from the http header """ msg = email.parser.BytesParser().parsebytes(postBytes) if debug: print('DEBUG: POST arriving ' + msg.get_payload(decode=True).decode('utf-8')) messageFields = msg.get_payload(decode=True) messageFields = messageFields.decode('utf-8').split(boundary) fields = {} # examine each section of the POST, separated by the boundary for f in messageFields: if f == '--': continue if ' name="' not in f: continue postStr = f.split(' name="', 1)[1] if '"' not in postStr: continue postKey = postStr.split('"', 1)[0] postValueStr = postStr.split('"', 1)[1] if ';' in postValueStr: continue if '\r\n' not in postValueStr: continue postLines = postValueStr.split('\r\n') postValue = '' if len(postLines) > 2: for line in range(2, len(postLines)-1): if line > 2: postValue += '\n' postValue += postLines[line] fields[postKey] = postValue return fields