Accessing POST parameters from BaseHTTPServer

[James]

Hi all,
I'm writing a super simple little debugging HTTP server which simply
returns the path and parameters it receives requests for.

E.g. requesting /meth?a=b returns something like:
Command: GET
Path: /meth
Params: {'a': ['b']}

This is fine for GET, but I can't see how I access parameters passed
by POST requests...

The particular client programme I'm testing will be passing stuff up
as text/xml, if that's any help...

Thanks!
James

 

[Steve Holden]

Hi all,
I'm writing a super simple little debugging HTTP server which simply
returns the path and parameters it receives requests for.

E.g. requesting /meth?a=b returns something like:
Command: GET
Path: /meth
Params: {'a': ['b']}

This is fine for GET, but I can't see how I access parameters passed
by POST requests...

The particular client programme I'm testing will be passing stuff up
as text/xml, if that's any help...

You read the standard input and decode them according to the relevant
RFC. The source of the cgi module could be enlightening there. You might
even consider importing it and using it ...

regards
Steve