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

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Frederick The Fool picture Frederick The Fool · May 12, 2011 · Viewed 44.9k times · Source

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?

Answer

Roman Bodnarchuk picture Roman Bodnarchuk · May 12, 2011

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)

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