title: python send file to tika running as a service
body: <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16251436/unable-to-run-java-command-from-cgi">Reference to this question</a> I would like to send a MS Word (.doc) file to a tika application running as a service, how can I do this?</p>
  
  <p>There is this link for running tika:
  <a href="http://mimi.kaktusteam.de/blog-posts/2013/02/running-apache-tika-in-server-mode/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://mimi.kaktusteam.de/blog-posts/2013/02/running-apache-tika-in-server-mode/</a></p>
  
  <p>But for the python code to access it I am not sure if I can use sockets or urllib or what exactly?</p>