Help with POST request.

[Chris Liechti]

Gustavo Cordova <gcordova at hebmex.com> wrote in
news:mailman.1017440584.2947.python-list at python.org: 
...
> Well, I'm having some trouble accepting POST requests.
...
> ==========================================================import
> BaseHTTPServer 
> 
> SIMPLE_WEB_FORM = """ ... a little web page in HTML ..."""
> 
> class TestHTTPRequestHandler
(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
>     def test_response(self):
>         # Always so positive.
>         self.send_response(200)
>         self.send_header("Content-type", "text/html")
>         self.end_headers()
> 
>     def do_GET(self):
>         self.test_response()
>         self.wfile.write(SIMPLE_WEB_FORM)
> 
>     def do_POST(self):
>         self.test_response()
>         print "-" * 60

          #find out length of input data
          length = int(self.headers.getheader('content-length'))
          #read data
          print self.rfile.read(length)

>         print "-" * 60
>         self.wfile.write(SIMPLE_WEB_FORM)
> 
> BaseHTTPServer.test(TestHTTPRequestHandler, 
BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer)
> 
> ==========================================================
> OK, the problem is I can't ever see what's being sent via POST,
> it hangs when reading from the rfile object.
> 
> I'd appreciate any and all comments.

i've replaced the read() above with a solution that works for me.

chris

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Chris <cliechti at gmx.net>