exercise2.py

"""
Exercise #2

Use the form in exercise2_form.html to trigger the request
"""

from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
from urllib.parse import urlparse, parse_qsl

class myHTTPServer_RequestHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):

    # GET
    def do_GET(self):
        # Send response status code
        self.send_response(200)

        # Send headers
        self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html')
        self.end_headers()

        # Input parameters (as a dict)
        parsed = urlparse(self.path)
        params = parse_qsl(parsed.query)
        # Concatenate variable-value pairs into a single string
        msg = "".join(["{}: {}\n".format(p[0], p[1]) for p in params])

        # Write message content as utf-8 data
        self.wfile.write(bytes(msg, "utf8"))
        return

def main():
    server_address = ('127.0.0.1', 8080)
    httpd = HTTPServer(server_address, myHTTPServer_RequestHandler)
    print("running server...")
    httpd.serve_forever()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()