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A simple echo server to inspect http web requests
#!/usr/bin/env python
# Reflects the requests from HTTP methods GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE
# Written by Nathan Hamiel (2010)
from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler
from optparse import OptionParser
class RequestHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
def do_GET(self):
request_path = self.path
print("\n----- Request Start ----->\n")
print(request_path)
print(self.headers)
print("<----- Request End -----\n")
self.send_response(200)
self.send_header("Set-Cookie", "foo=bar")
def do_POST(self):
request_path = self.path
print("\n----- Request Start ----->\n")
print(request_path)
request_headers = self.headers
content_length = request_headers.getheaders('content-length')
length = int(content_length[0]) if content_length else 0
print(request_headers)
print(self.rfile.read(length))
print("<----- Request End -----\n")
self.send_response(200)
do_PUT = do_POST
do_DELETE = do_GET
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()
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