Shows anything sent over POST.

show_post.py

#!/usr/bin/python
import time
import BaseHTTPServer
import cgi
from pprint import pprint

HOST_NAME = 'localhost'
PORT_NUMBER = 9000

class MyHandler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
        def do_POST(self):
            form = cgi.FieldStorage(
                fp=self.rfile,
                headers=self.headers,
                environ={"REQUEST_METHOD": "POST"}
            )

            for item in form.list:
                print "%s=%s" % (item.name, item.value)


if __name__ == '__main__':
        server_class = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer
        httpd = server_class((HOST_NAME, PORT_NUMBER), MyHandler)
        print time.asctime(), "Server Starts - %s:%s" % (HOST_NAME, PORT_NUMBER)
        try:
                httpd.serve_forever()
        except KeyboardInterrupt:
                pass
        httpd.server_close()
        print time.asctime(), "Server Stops - %s:%s" % (HOST_NAME, PORT_NUMBER)