Processing HTTP GET input parameter on server side in python

Question

I wrote a simple HTTP client and server in Python for experimenting. The first code snippet below shows how I send an HTTP GET request with a parameter named imsi. In the se

Answer 1

BaseHTTPServer is a pretty low-level server. Generally you want to use a real web framework that does this kind of grunt work for you, but since you asked...

First import a url parsing library. In Python 2,x it's urlparse. (In Python3, you'd use urllib.parse)

import urlparse

Then, in your do_get method, parse the query string.

imsi = urlparse.parse_qs(urlparse.urlparse(self.path).query).get('imsi', None)
print imsi  # Prints None or the string value of imsi

Also, you could be using urllib in your client code and it would probably be a lot easier.