basehttprequesthandler

Writing response body with BaseHTTPRequestHandler

August 1, 2023 by Tarik

In Python3 string is a different type than that in Python 2.x. Cast it into bytes using either self.wfile.write(bytes(“<html><head><title>Title goes here.</title></head>/html>”,”utf-8″)) or self.wfile.write(“<html><head><title>Title goes here.</title></head></html>”.encode(“utf-8”))

How to extract HTTP message body in BaseHTTPRequestHandler.do_POST()?

March 10, 2023 by Tarik

You can access POST body in do_POST method like this: for python 2 content_len = int(self.headers.getheader(‘content-length’, 0)) for python 3 content_len = int(self.headers.get(‘Content-Length’)) and then read the data post_body = self.rfile.read(content_len)