Python HTTPServer - get HTTP body

Question

I wrote a HTTP server using python, but I do not know how to get the HTTP body. what should I do to get the HTTP body?

here is my code:

from http.server import HTTPServer,BaseHTTPRequestHandler

class MyHTTPHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
    def do_GET(self):
        print("connect from ",self.client_address)
        print(self.headers)
        length = self.headers['Content-Length']
        print(length)

addr = ('',21567)
server = HTTPServer(addr,MyHTTPHandler)
server.serve_forever()

In any case. I feel like you should be writing HTML to some Response object — OneCricketeer
– OneCricketeer, Commented Jul 19, 2016 at 12:59
Possible duplicate of Writing response body with BaseHTTPRequestHandler — OneCricketeer
– OneCricketeer, Commented Jul 19, 2016 at 13:00
@LiGhTx117 Well, yes, technically you can send any garbage you want... — deceze
– deceze ♦, Commented Jul 19, 2016 at 13:14

Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-20 09:12:55Z

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Having a request body in a GET request is not a good practice, as its discussed here: HTTP GET with request body

Instead, you can change your method to POST and check there the BaseHTTPRequestHandler documentation: https://docs.python.org/2/library/basehttpserver.html

Especially this part:

rfile

Contains an input stream, positioned at the start of the optional input data.

edited Jun 20, 2020 at 9:12

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4 Comments

Enrico's Ricardo Over a year ago

I've tried so many times, self.rfile.read(int(self.headers['Content-Length'])) returns nothing

LiGhTx117 Over a year ago

What do you use to test you program (curl, web brower, etc.) ?

Enrico's Ricardo Over a year ago

I've solved it, I changed the method to POST, and it finally worked!

white_gecko Over a year ago

@Enrico'sRicardo could you please accept this answer as solution?

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