Question

A web server is running (on EC2) and I’m testing this simple Html5 login form with a method=”post” attribute in two ways:

1. as-is
2. within a larger website

<div>
    <form action="" method="post" >
        <p/>
        <input id="username" type="text" name="username" placeholder="Username" >
        <p/>
        <input id="password" type="password" name="password" placeholder="Password" >
        <p/>
        <input type="submit" class="btn" value="Login">
    </form>
</div>

A handler in the Python-based web server includes:

username = self.get_argument('username') 
password = self.get_argument('password')

The first method works with a Http 200 but the second generates a Http 405 “Method Not Allowed”. Both use the identical handler code on the web server.

I cannot find where the problem is. What is the best way to debug this?

Answer 1

The problem was with the web-server and the order of the parameters/attributes for the Class function handling the Post method.