server.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
Very simple HTTP server in python for logging requests
Usage::
    ./server.py [<port>]
"""
from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
import logging
import time

class S(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
    mylist = list()
    fn=None

    def _set_response(self):
        self.send_response(200)
        self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html')
        self.end_headers()

    def do_GET(self):
        #logging.info("GET request,\nPath: %s\nHeaders:\n%s\n", str(self.path), str(self.headers))
        self._set_response()
        #self.wfile.write("GET request for {}".format(self.path).encode('utf-8'))
        #logging.info("PAPAJOHN:%s",self.mylist)
        #self.wfile.write("GET request for {}{}".format(self.path, self.mylist).encode('utf-8'))
        #self.wfile.write("\nGET request for {}".format(self.path).encode('utf-8'))
        for x in range(len(self.mylist)):
        #    self.wfile.write ("\n".encode('utf-8'))
            self.wfile.write (self.mylist[x].encode('utf-8'))

    def do_POST(self):
        content_length = int(self.headers['Content-Length']) # <--- Gets the size of data
        post_data = self.rfile.read(content_length) # <--- Gets the data itself
        #logging.info("POST request,\nPath: %s\nHeaders:\n%s\n\nBody:\n%s\n",
              #  str(self.path), str(self.headers), post_data.decode('utf-8'))

        self._set_response()
        self.wfile.write("POST request for {}".format(self.path).encode('utf-8'))
        #x="{}\"Entry{}\" :  {} \"".format("{",len(self.mylist),post_data.decode("utf-8"))
        x="\"Entry{}\" : {}  \"".format(len(self.mylist),post_data.decode("utf-8"))
        #self.mylist.append(post_data.decode('utf-8'))
        self.mylist.append(x)
        lf = open(self.fn,"a")
        lf.write(x)
        lf.write("\n")
        lf.close()

def run(server_class=HTTPServer, handler_class=S, port=54321):
    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
    server_address = ('', port)
    httpd = server_class(server_address, handler_class)
    timestr = time.strftime("%Y%m%d-%H%M%S")
    S.fn="log"+timestr
    logging.info('Starting httpd...\n')
    try:
        httpd.serve_forever()
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        pass
    httpd.server_close()
    logging.info('Stopping httpd...\n')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    from sys import argv

    if len(argv) == 2:
        run(port=int(argv[1]))
    else:
        run()