bug5440: added Python web server configuration/httpserver.py that handles POST correctly

configuration/httpserver.py

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+from SimpleHTTPServer import SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
+import SocketServer
+import simplejson
+
+class S(SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
+    def _set_headers(self):
+        self.send_response(200)
+        self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html')
+        self.end_headers()
+
+    def do_GET(self):
+        print "got get request %s" % (self.path)
+        if self.path == '/':
+          self.path = '/index.html'
+          return SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.do_GET(self)
+
+    def do_POST(self):
+        print "got post!!"
+        self._set_headers()
+        content_len = int(self.headers.getheader('content-length', 0))
+        post_body = self.rfile.read(content_len)
+        test_data = simplejson.loads(post_body)
+        print "post_body(%s)" % (test_data)
+        self.wfile.write("received POST request:<br>{}".format(post_body))
+
+def run(handler_class=S, port=50000):
+    httpd = SocketServer.TCPServer(("", port), handler_class)
+    print 'Starting httpd...'
+    httpd.serve_forever()
+
+run()