Python HTTPServer - get HTTP body

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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, Jul 19 '16 at 12:59
Possible duplicate of [Writing response body with BaseHTTPRequestHandler](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7646657/writing-response-body-with-basehttprequesthandler) — OneCricketeer, Jul 19 '16 at 13:00
@deceze You can but... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/978061/http-get-with-request-body — LiGhTx117, Jul 19 '16 at 13:10
@LiGhTx117 Well, yes, *technically* you can send any garbage you want... — deceze, Jul 19 '16 at 13:14
Server should close the connection if garbage comes. If HTTP/1.1 and keep-alive, then only next method request can be posted, and only POST method can contain data after the header. Tolerating garbage can lead to DoS attacks. — Dalen, Jul 19 '16 at 13:25

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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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 '20 at 09:12

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answered Jul 19 '16 at 13:01

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I've tried so many times, self.rfile.read(int(self.headers['Content-Length'])) returns nothing – Enrico's Ricardo Jul 19 '16 at 13:05
What do you use to test you program (curl, web brower, etc.) ? – LiGhTx117 Jul 19 '16 at 13:07
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I've solved it, I changed the method to POST, and it finally worked! – Enrico's Ricardo Jul 19 '16 at 13:15
@Enrico'sRicardo could you please accept this answer as solution? – white_gecko May 01 '20 at 21:46

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