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Simple Python 3 HTTP server for logging all GET and POST requests
#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
Very simple HTTP server in python for logging requests
Usage::
./server.py [<port>]
"""
from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
import logging
class S(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
def _set_response(self, msg):
logging.info(msg)
self.send_response(200)
self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html')
self.end_headers()
self.wfile.write(msg.encode('utf-8'))
def do_GET(self):
msg = "GET request:\nPath: %s\nHeaders:\n%s\n" % ( str(self.path), str(self.headers) )
self._set_response(msg)
def do_POST(self):
content_length = int(self.headers['Content-Length']) # <--- Gets the size of data
post_data = self.rfile.read(content_length) # <--- Gets the data itself
msg = "POST request:\nPath: %s\nHeaders:\n%s\n\nBody:\n%s\n" \
% ( str(self.path), str(self.headers), post_data.decode('utf-8') )
self._set_response(msg)
def run(server_class=HTTPServer, handler_class=S, port=8080):
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
server_address = ('127.0.0.1', port)
httpd = server_class(server_address, handler_class)
logging.info('Starting local httpd on port %d...\n' % port)
try:
httpd.serve_forever()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
pass
httpd.server_close()
logging.info('Stopping httpd...\n')
if __name__ == '__main__':
from sys import argv
run(port=int(argv[1])) if len(argv) > 1 else run()
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