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a minimal http server in python (2/3). Responds to GET, HEAD, POST requests, but will fail on anything else.
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
Very simple HTTP server in python.
Usage::
./dummy-web-server.py [<port>]
Send a GET request::
curl http://localhost
Send a HEAD request::
curl -I http://localhost
Send a POST request::
curl -d "foo=bar&bin=baz" http://localhost
"""
import sys
if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
# python 2 import
from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
else:
# python 3 import
from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
class BaseServer(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
def _set_headers(self):
self.send_response(200)
self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html')
self.end_headers()
def do_GET(self):
self._set_headers()
self.wfile.write("<html><body><p>hello, world!</p></body></html>"
.encode('utf-8'))
def do_HEAD(self):
self._set_headers()
def do_POST(self):
content_length = int(self.headers['Content-Length'])
post_data = self.rfile.read(content_length)
self._set_headers()
self.wfile.write("<html><body><p>POST!</p><p>%s</p></body></html>"
.encode('utf-8') % post_data)
def run(server_class=HTTPServer, handler_class=BaseServer, port=80):
server_address = ('', port)
httpd = server_class(server_address, handler_class)
print('HTTP server running on port %s'% port)
httpd.serve_forever()
if __name__ == "__main__":
from sys import argv
if len(argv) == 2:
run(port=int(argv[1]))
else:
run()
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OneCricketeer commented Aug 30, 2017

Could use

self.wfile.write("<html><body><p>POST!</p><p>{}</p></body></html>".format(post_data).encode("utf-8"))

@vitalNohj
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if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
    self.wfile.write("<html><body<p>POST!</p><p>%s</p></body></html>".encode('utf-8') % post_data)
else:
    self.wfile.write("<html><body<p>POST!</p><p>{}</p></body></html>".format(post_data).encode('utf-8'))

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