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A simple echo server to inspect http web requests
#!/usr/bin/env python
# Reflects the requests from HTTP methods GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE
# Written by Nathan Hamiel (2010)
import os
from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler
from optparse import OptionParser
class RequestHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
def do_GET(self):
request_path = self.path
buffer = []
buffer.append("request path: " + str(request_path))
buffer.append("headers: " + str(self.headers))
self.send_response(200)
self.send_header("Set-Cookie", "foo=bar")
self.send_header("Content-type", "text/plain")
self.end_headers()
self.wfile.write("\n".join(buffer))
def do_POST(self):
request_path = self.path
request_headers = self.headers
content_length = request_headers.getheaders('content-length')
length = int(content_length[0]) if content_length else 0
buffer = []
buffer.append("request path: " + str(request_path))
buffer.append("headers: " + str(request_headers))
buffer.append("body: " + str(self.rfile.read(length)))
self.send_response(200)
self.send_header("Content-type", "text/plain")
self.end_headers()
self.wfile.write("\n".join(buffer))
do_PUT = do_POST
do_DELETE = do_GET
def main():
port = int(os.environ.get('PORT', '8080'))
print('Listening on localhost:%s' % port)
server = HTTPServer(('', port), RequestHandler)
server.serve_forever()
if __name__ == "__main__":
parser = OptionParser()
parser.usage = ("Creates an http-server that will echo out any GET or POST parameters\n"
"Run:\n\n"
" reflect")
(options, args) = parser.parse_args()
main()
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