pythonpython-3.xwsgi

Accessing POST Data from WSGI

I can't seem to figure out how to access POST data using WSGI. I tried the example on the wsgi.org website and it didn't work. I'm using Python 3.0 right now. Please don't recommend a WSGI framework as that is not what I'm looking for.

I would like to figure out how to get it into a fieldstorage object.

Solution

  • Assuming you are trying to get just the POST data into a FieldStorage object:

    # env is the environment handed to you by the WSGI server.
# I am removing the query string from the env before passing it to the
# FieldStorage so we only have POST data in there.
post_env = env.copy()
post_env['QUERY_STRING'] = ''
post = cgi.FieldStorage(
    fp=env['wsgi.input'],
    environ=post_env,
    keep_blank_values=True
)