Send arbitrary data via http with python's httplib

client.py

import httplib
import urllib

DATA = "Hello"

connection = httplib.HTTPConnection("localhost:9999", timeout=20)
connection.request("POST", "/stream", headers = {'content-length' : str(len(DATA))})
connection.send(DATA)

response = connection.getresponse()
print response.read()

connection.close()

server.py

import SimpleHTTPServer
import SocketServer

PORT = 9999
DATA = "Hellooooo"

class MyHandler(SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
    def do_POST(self):
        length = int(self.headers["content-length"])
        bytes_read = 0
        while bytes_read < length:
            bytes = self.rfile.read(1)
            print bytes
            bytes_read += 1

        self.send_response(200)
        self.send_header("content-length", str(len(DATA)))
        self.end_headers()
        self.wfile.write(DATA)
        self.wfile.close();

httpd = SocketServer.TCPServer(("", PORT), MyHandler)

print "serving at port", PORT
httpd.serve_forever()