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Simple Python 3 HTTP server for logging all GET and POST requests
#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
Forked from: https://gist.github.com/mdonkers/63e115cc0c79b4f6b8b3a6b797e485c7
"""
import logging
from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
# Server address is a tuple of 'host' and 'port'
SERVER_ADDRESS = ("127.0.0.1", 8000)
class MyHTTPHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
def _set_headers(self):
self.send_response(200)
self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html')
self.end_headers()
def do_GET(self):
logging.info("GET request,\nPath: %s\nHeaders:\n%s\n", str(self.path), str(self.headers))
self._set_headers()
self.wfile.write("GET request for {}".format(self.path).encode('utf-8'))
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
logging.info("\nPOST request,\nPath: %s\nHeaders:\n%s\nBody:\n%s\n",
str(self.path), str(self.headers), post_data.decode('utf-8'))
self._set_headers()
self.wfile.write("POST request for {}".format(self.path).encode('utf-8'))
if __name__ == '__main__':
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
logging.info('Starting httpd at {}:{}...\n'.format(*SERVER_ADDRESS))
with HTTPServer(SERVER_ADDRESS, MyHTTPHandler) as httpd:
try:
httpd.serve_forever()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
logging.info('Stopping httpd...\n')
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