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Testing http.server GET/POST Service with Python 3

If you want to test the API service you wrote locally, you can write an easy http service. The example is as follows.

from http.server import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler

from io import BytesIO
class HTTPRequestService(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
def do_GET(self):
self.send_response(200)
self.end_headers()
self.wfile.write(b'ONly POST')
def do_POST(self):
content_length = int(self.headers['Content-Length'])
body = self.rfile.read(content_length)
self.send_response(200)
self.end_headers()
response = BytesIO()
response.write(body)
self.wfile.write(response.getvalue())

httpd = HTTPServer(('localhost', 8000), HTTPRequestService)

httpd.serve_forever()