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Parsa
Parsa

Reputation: 23

python -m http.server is not working for POST

I was trying to run my webpage in localhost. I am using python http.server to run the code in localhost. It works for GET requests but not working for POST. 

python -m http.server --cgi 8080

It is showing

"Error code: 501

Message: Can only POST to CGI scripts.

Error code explanation: HTTPStatus.NOT_IMPLEMENTED - Server does not support this operation."

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2198

Answers (1)

Valentin Lorentz
Valentin Lorentz

Reputation: 9753

CGI scripts have to be in a special directory, like cgi-bin:

Only directory-based CGI are used

cgi_directories¶

This defaults to ['/cgi-bin', '/htbin'] and describes directories to treat as containing CGI scripts.

So you can use them this way:

In a terminal, run: python3 -m http.server --cgi 8080

and in another one:

$ cat cgi-bin/foo.py
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sys
print('200 OK\r\n\r\nfoo')
$ chmod u+x cgi-bin/foo.py
$ curl http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/foo.py -X POST
foo

Upvotes: 2

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