Simple server that runs in the background, collecting POST data, passing them to main service via Queue

HTTPserverListener

# from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49070708/how-to-pass-queue-to-basehttpserver

import multiprocessing
from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler
from io import BytesIO

class QueuingHTTPServer(HTTPServer):

    # def __init__(self, server_address, RequestHandlerClass, bind_and_activate=True, queue=False):
    def __init__(self, server_address, RequestHandlerClass, queue, bind_and_activate=True):
        HTTPServer.__init__(self, server_address, RequestHandlerClass, bind_and_activate)
        self.queue = queue

class PostHTTPRequestHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):

    def do_POST(self):
        content_length = int(self.headers['Content-Length'])
        body = self.rfile.read(content_length)
        print("body: {}".format(body))
        self.send_response(200)
        self.end_headers()
        response = BytesIO()
        response.write(b'This is POST request. ')
        response.write(b'Received: ')
        response.write(body)
        self.wfile.write(response.getvalue())
        self.server.queue.put(body)

def run_server(port, queue):
    print('run_server')
    httpd = QueuingHTTPServer(('0.0.0.0', port), PostHTTPRequestHandler, queue)
    httpd.timeout = 2
    while True:
        httpd.handle_request()

queue = multiprocessing.Queue()
p = multiprocessing.Process(target=run_server, name='serve', args=(8000, queue))
p.start()