Questions tagged [basehttprequesthandler]
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How to extract HTTP message body in BaseHTTPRequestHandler.do_POST()?
In the do_POST() method of BaseHTTPRequestHandler I can access the headers of the POST request simply via the property self.headers. But I can't find a similar property for accessing the body of the message. How do I then go about doing that?
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Writing response body with BaseHTTPRequestHandler
I'm playing a little with Python 3.2.2 and want to write a simple web server to access some data remotely. This data will be generated by Python so I don't want to use the SimpleHTTPRequestHandler as it's a file server, but a handler of my own.
I…
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BaseHTTPRequestHandler with custom instance
this is my http server:
from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler,HTTPServer
class test:
def show(self):
return "aaaa"
class http_server:
def __init__(self, t1):
self.t1 = t1
server = HTTPServer(('', 8080),…
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Python: BaseHTTPRequestHandler - Read raw post
How do I read the raw http post STRING. I've found several solutions for reading a parsed version of the post, however the project I'm working on submits a raw xml payload without a header. So I am trying to find a way to read the post data without…
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Python BaseHTTPRequestHandler: Respond with JSON
I have a Python class that inherits BaseHTTPRequestHandler and implements the method do_POST.
I currently only succeed to respond with an integer status, e.g. 200, using the following command at the end of the method:
self.send_response(200)
I am…
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How do you override BaseHTTPRequestHandler log_message() method to log to a file rather than to console (sys.stderr)?
I'm creating a Webservice using BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer
I would like to log the following to be logged to a file rather than to the console. But I have not managed to find a way to do so yet.
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Redirect function with BaseHTTPRequestHandler
This is my code:
from http.server import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler
class Handler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
def do_GET(self):
self.send_response(200)
self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html')
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user3241727
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Add a new instance variable to subclass of http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler
I want to be able to add an instance variable to my subclass of http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler.
Here's my code:
from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
import urllib
class Server(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
def…
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How to call function from Python HTTP server?
I want to provide one of my applications with a web interface. To achieve that, I subclass BaseHTTPRequestHandler from the BaseHTTPServer package (into a class I call _RequestHandler) and implement my own handlers for HTTP HEAD / GET / POST / PUT…
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How do I access the data sent to my server using BaseHTTPRequestHandler?
I'm a newbie to Python (using v3.3) and web programing and I've been struggling with a problem all night. I'm issuing a POST call to my server and sending it some data as follows:
DATA = {"listName":"Test list","listDesc":"A test list with test…
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BaseHTTPRequestHandler hangs on self.rfile.read()
I implemented a python server using the BaseHTTPRequestHandler and it, often times, will hang while reading from the socket fileobject. It doesnt seem to matter how many bytes I read. I could read 30k bytes and it wont hang or I could read 7k bytes…
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variables inside BaseHTTPRequestHandler Python
I am creating a chatbot using Python and MS Bot Builder SDK for Python.
The bot is a HTTPServer using a handler. What I want are variables to help me keeping track of the conversation, for example a message counter. But I can't get it to work, each…
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python - using BaseHTTPRequestHandler with UnixStreamServer causes exception
I'm trying to create a basic HTTP server bound to a Unix Domain Socket, but using a BaseHTTPRequestHandler subclass with UnixStreamServer is creating an exception that suggests they cannot work together.
Toy server.py:
from SocketServer import…
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How to transfer images to client using Python BaseHttpRequestHandler in Windows?
I know that this question has already been asked before, for instance here: How do I serve image Content-types with Python BaseHTTPServerRequestHandler do_GET method?, but the typical answer of "set your file open mode to binary" is not working for…
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How to parse POST data into a dictionary
I'm trying to write a simple "server" that inherits from BaseHTTPRequestHandler and is able to receive GET and POST requests. I have a server.py file that, so far, looks like this:
from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
from cgi…
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