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Asked: 2026-06-12T11:01:24+00:00

I found a script on this site for running a simple server via the

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I found a script on this site for running a simple server via the command line with python.

I added some print lines in because I’d like to print out the GET and POST parameters via the command line for requests, but I can’t seem to get them to show up anywhere.

If I just print our our the s variable (pprint (vars(s))) I end up seeing this:

{'client_address': ('127.0.0.1', 53373),
 'close_connection': 1,
 'command': 'GET',
 'connection': <socket._socketobject object at 0x10b6560c0>,
 'headers': <mimetools.Message instance at 0x10b689ab8>,
 'path': '/favicon.ico',
 'raw_requestline': 'GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1\r\n',
 'request': <socket._socketobject object at 0x10b6560c0>,
 'request_version': 'HTTP/1.1',
 'requestline': 'GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1',
 'rfile': <socket._fileobject object at 0x10b6538d0>,
 'server': <BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer instance at 0x10b6893f8>,
 'wfile': <socket._fileobject object at 0x10b6536d0>}

I tried to then use the print command with each of the indices, (pprint (vars(s.connection))) but that’s not working.

Here is the modified script:

#!/usr/bin/python
import time
import BaseHTTPServer
from pprint import pprint

HOST_NAME = 'localhost' # !!!REMEMBER TO CHANGE THIS!!!
PORT_NUMBER = 9000 # Maybe set this to 9000.


class MyHandler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
        def do_HEAD(s):
                s.send_response(200)
                s.send_header("Content-type", "text/html")
                s.end_headers()
        def do_GET(s):
                """Respond to a GET request."""
                s.send_response(200)
                s.send_header("Content-type", "text/html")
                s.end_headers()
                s.wfile.write("<html><head><title>Title goes here.</title></head>")
                s.wfile.write("<body><form action='.' method='POST'><input name='x' value='1' /><input type='submit' /></form><p>This is a test.</p>")
                # If someone went to "http://something.somewhere.net/foo/bar/",
                # then s.path equals "/foo/bar/".
                s.wfile.write("<p>GET: You accessed path: %s</p>" % s.path)
                s.wfile.write("</body></html>")
                pprint (vars(s))
        def do_POST(s):
                """Respond to a POST request."""
                s.send_response(200)
                s.send_header("Content-type", "text/html")
                s.end_headers()
                s.wfile.write("<html><head><title>Title goes here.</title></head>")
                s.wfile.write("<body><p>This is a test.</p>")
                s.wfile.write("<body><form action='.' method='POST'><input type='text' name='xxxxxxxxxxxx' value='0000000000000000000000' /><input type='submit' /></form><p>This is a test.</p>")
                # If someone went to "http://something.somewhere.net/foo/bar/",
                # then s.path equals "/foo/bar/".
                s.wfile.write("<p>POST: You accessed path: %s</p>" % s.path)
                s.wfile.write("</body></html>")
                pprint (vars(s))
                pprint (vars(s.connection))
                pprint (vars(s.headers))
                pprint (vars(s.request))
                pprint (vars(s.rfile))
                pprint (vars(s.server))
                pprint (vars(s.wfile))
                pprint (vars(s.fp))
                """pprint (vars(s.request))"""

if __name__ == '__main__':
        server_class = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer
        httpd = server_class((HOST_NAME, PORT_NUMBER), MyHandler)
        print time.asctime(), "Server Starts - %s:%s" % (HOST_NAME, PORT_NUMBER)
        try:
                httpd.serve_forever()
        except KeyboardInterrupt:
                pass
        httpd.server_close()
        print time.asctime(), "Server Stops - %s:%s" % (HOST_NAME, PORT_NUMBER)

How can I print out POST and GET parameters using a simple script?

Desired output via the command line would look something like:

1.0.0.127. - - [03/Oct/2012 16:02:05] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 -
foo=1
bar=2
bis=3
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  1. Editorial Team

    It’s not tremendously obvious, but the handler is using sockets behind the scenes. So you need to read the raw data from the socket, and then interpret it.

    Use the urlparse module.

    • In Python 2, you want urlparse.parse_qs.
    • In Python 3, the library is renamed: you want urllib.parse.parse_qs.

    Import urlparse, and then modify your do_POST method like so:

    def do_POST(s):
        """Respond to a POST request."""

        # Extract and print the contents of the POST
        length = int(s.headers['Content-Length'])
        post_data = urlparse.parse_qs(s.rfile.read(length).decode('utf-8'))
        for key, value in post_data.iteritems():
            print "%s=%s" % (key, value)

        s.send_response(200)
        s.send_header("Content-type", "text/html")
        s.end_headers()
        ...

    Set up a simple test client:

    #!/usr/bin/env python

import urllib
import urllib2

url = 'http://localhost:9000'
post_dict = {'foo' : 1,
             'bar' : 2,
             'bis' : 3}

params = urllib.urlencode(post_dict)
post_req = urllib2.Request(url)
post_req.add_data(params)

response = urllib2.urlopen(post_req)
response_data = response.read()
response.close()
print response_data

    Start the server, and then run the client:

    ire@localhost$ python http_server.py 
Wed Oct  3 21:38:51 2012 Server Starts - localhost:9000
foo=[u'1']
bar=[u'2']
bis=[u'3']
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