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Simple post/get server on Python 3.5 with cgi (udacity example converted)
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| #!/usr/bin/env python3.5 | |
| # different imports | |
| from http.server import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler | |
| import cgi | |
| class WebServerHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler): | |
| form_html = \ | |
| ''' | |
| <form method='POST' enctype='multipart/form-data' action='/hello'> | |
| <h2>What would you like me to say?</h2> | |
| <input name="message" type="text"><input type="submit" value="Submit" > | |
| </form> | |
| ''' | |
| def do_GET(self): | |
| try: | |
| if self.path.endswith("/hello"): | |
| self.send_response(200) | |
| self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html') | |
| self.end_headers() | |
| output = "" | |
| output += "<html>" \ | |
| " <body>" \ | |
| " Hello!<br>" + self.form_html + \ | |
| " </body>" \ | |
| "</html>" | |
| self.wfile.write(output.encode()) | |
| print(output) | |
| if self.path.endswith("/hola"): | |
| self.send_response(200) | |
| self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html') | |
| self.end_headers() | |
| output = "<html>" \ | |
| " <body>" \ | |
| " ¡Hola! <br>" + self.form_html + \ | |
| " <a href='/hello'>Back Home</a>" \ | |
| " </body>" \ | |
| "</html>" | |
| self.wfile.write(output.encode()) | |
| print(output) | |
| except IOError: | |
| self.send_error(404, "File Not Found {}".format(self.path)) | |
| def do_POST(self): | |
| try: | |
| self.send_response(301) | |
| self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html') | |
| self.end_headers() | |
| # HEADERS are now in dict/json style container | |
| ctype, pdict = cgi.parse_header( | |
| self.headers['content-type']) | |
| # boundary data needs to be encoded in a binary format | |
| pdict['boundary'] = bytes(pdict['boundary'], "utf-8") | |
| if ctype == 'multipart/form-data': | |
| fields = cgi.parse_multipart(self.rfile, pdict) | |
| messagecontent = fields.get('message') | |
| output = "" | |
| output += "<html><body>" | |
| output += " <h2> Okay, how about this: </h2>" | |
| # decode it back into a string rather than byte string(b'stuff') | |
| output += "<h1> {} </h1>".format(messagecontent[0].decode()) | |
| output += self.form_html | |
| output += "</body></html>" | |
| self.wfile.write(output.encode()) | |
| print(output) | |
| except: | |
| raise | |
| def main(): | |
| try: | |
| port = 8080 | |
| server = HTTPServer(('', port), WebServerHandler) | |
| print("Web server is running on port {}".format(port)) | |
| server.serve_forever() | |
| except KeyboardInterrupt: | |
| print("^C entered, stopping web server...") | |
| finally: | |
| if server: | |
| server.socket.close() | |
| if __name__ == '__main__': | |
| main() |
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In a vagrant/configured machine to run the webserver
python webserver.pyTo bring up the webpage:
http://localhost:8080/hello