Error when using `configchannel.createOrUpdatePath` API to upload binary files, those are considered as text files.

Solution Verified - Updated 2012-07-30T13:05:26+00:00 -

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Environment

• Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite.
• configchannel.createOrUpdatePath API call

Issue

• In RHN Satellite 5.3, the API call configchannel.createOrUpdatePath does not allow a file to be marked as binary.
• Error when using createOrUpdatePath API to upload binary files, those are considered as text files.

Resolution

To pass binary file (base64) content over RHN Satellite server use xmlrpclib.Binary('content') function so that RHN Satellite will consider it as a binary configuration file.

Root Cause

If we do not pass base64 content using xmlrpclib.Binary('content') function, it will upload the configuration file as a text file.

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