How to extract HTTP message body in BaseHTTPRequestHandler.do_POST()?

Question

In the do_POST() method of BaseHTTPRequestHandler I can access the headers of the POST request simply via the property self.headers. But I can't find a similar property for accessing the body of the message. How do I then go about doing that?

Answer 1

You can access POST body in do_POST method like this:

for python 2

content_len = int(self.headers.getheader('content-length', 0))

for python 3

content_len = int(self.headers.get('Content-Length'))

and then read the data

post_body = self.rfile.read(content_len)