A simple echo server to inspect http web requests

reflect.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# Reflects the requests from HTTP methods GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE
# Written by Nathan Hamiel (2010)
# Modifications by Aaron Gallagher (2016)

from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler
from optparse import OptionParser
import datetime

LOG_FILE = 'log_%s.txt' % datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S')

class RequestHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
    logfile = open(LOG_FILE, 'w')
    
    def do_GET(self):
        
        request_path = self.path
        
        self.log("\n----- Request Start ----->\n")
        self.log(request_path)
        self.log(self.headers)
        self.log("<----- Request End -----\n")
        
        self.send_response(200)
        self.send_header("Set-Cookie", "foo=bar")
        
    def do_POST(self):
        
        request_path = self.path
        
        self.log("\n----- Request Start ----->\n")
        self.log(request_path)
        
        request_headers = self.headers
        content_length = request_headers.getheaders('content-length')
        length = int(content_length[0]) if content_length else 0
        
        self.log(request_headers)
        self.log(self.rfile.read(length))
        self.log("<----- Request End -----\n")
        
        self.send_response(200)
    
    do_PUT = do_POST
    do_DELETE = do_GET

    def log(self, msg):
        print(msg)
        self.logfile.write(str(msg))


def main():
    port = 8080
    print('Listening on localhost:%s' % port)
    server = HTTPServer(('', port), RequestHandler)
    server.serve_forever()

        
if __name__ == "__main__":
    parser = OptionParser()
    parser.usage = ("Creates an http-server that will echo out any GET or POST parameters\n"
                    "Run:\n\n"
                    "   reflect")
    (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
    
    main()