Accepting a POST request and return successful response

[Benjamin Hager]

Hello,

I have the following code that I initially wrote just using the BaseHTTPServer module:

def do_POST(self):

    """Respond to a POST request."""        

    body = "Message was Received!!"

    self.send_response(200, "OK")

    self.send_header("Content-type", "text/plain")

    self.send_header("Content-Length", str(len(body)))

    self.end_headers()

    self.wfile.write(body)

    self.data = self.file.readline()

I am trying to replicate the same functionality in Web.py but I seem to be having issues returning the successful response in the correct format. Here is what I have so far:

def POST(self):

        body = "Message was Received!!"

        web.ctx.status = "200 OK"

        web.header('Content-Type', 'text/plain')

        web.header('Content-Length', str(len(body)))

        web.ctx.output(body)

        data = web.data()

        return body

Any advice would be much appreciated! Thanks,

-Ben

[Peter Buckner]

Ben, you're working too hard

def POST(self):
   return "Message wasReceived!!"

Is all you need to do. The rest is handled for you, though you can override it, if you like.

-Peter