How to parse the "request body" using python CGI?

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I just need to write a simple python CGI script to parse the contents of a POST request containing JSON. This is only test code so that I can test a client application until the actual server is ready (written by someone else).

I can read the cgi.FieldStorage() and dump the keys() but the request body containing the JSON is nowhere to be found.

I can also dump the os.environ() which provides lots of info except that I do not see a variable containing the request body.

Any input appreciated.

Chris

score 27 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 01 '10 at 06:40

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If you're using CGI, just read data from stdin:

import sys
data = sys.stdin.read()

answered Oct 01 '10 at 06:40

ars

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Fantastic! Works great! I searched but never saw this one. Thank you! – Christopher Oct 01 '10 at 19:59
helps a lot! awesome! – luoluo Dec 17 '14 at 04:54

score 8 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 07 '16 at 06:19

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notice that if you call cgi.FieldStorage() before in your code, you can't get the body data from stdin, because it just be read once.

edited Oct 07 '16 at 06:19

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answered Oct 07 '16 at 05:55

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How to parse the "request body" using python CGI?

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