How to read POSTed data

[Pierre Quentel]

Here is an example of how to get the POST data :

#    def do_POST(self):
#        ctype, pdict = 
cgi.parse_header(self.headers.getheader('content-type'))
#        length = int(self.headers.getheader('content-length'))
#        if ctype == 'multipart/form-data':
#            self.body = cgi.parse_multipart(self.rfile, pdict)
#        elif ctype == 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded':
#            qs = self.rfile.read(length)
#            self.body = cgi.parse_qs(qs, keep_blank_values=1)
#        else:
#            self.body = {}                   # Unknown content-type
#        # throw away additional data [see bug #427345]
#        while select.select([self.rfile._sock], [], [], 0)[0]:
#            if not self.rfile._sock.recv(1):
#                break
#        self.handle_data()

where handle_data() is the method where you will process the data received

The part related to bug #427345 is copied from CGIHTTPServer

For an example of use you can take a look at the CustomHTTPServer in 
Karrigell (http://karrigell.sourceforge.net)

A+,
Pierre