def do_POST(self): """Handles the HTTP POST request. Attempts to interpret all HTTP POST requests as XML-RPC calls, which are forwarded to the server's _dispatch method for handling. """ # Check that the path is legal if not self.is_rpc_path_valid(): self.report_404() return try: # Get arguments by reading body of request. # We read this in chunks to avoid straining # socket.read(); around the 10 or 15Mb mark, some platforms # begin to have problems (bug #792570). max_chunk_size = 10*1024*1024 size_remaining = int(self.headers["content-length"]) L = [] while size_remaining: chunk_size = min(size_remaining, max_chunk_size) chunk = self.rfile.read(chunk_size) if not chunk: break L.append(chunk) size_remaining -= len(L[-1]) data = b''.join(L) data = self.decode_request_content(data) if data is None: return #response has been sent # In previous versions of SimpleXMLRPCServer, _dispatch # could be overridden in this class, instead of in # SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher. To maintain backwards compatibility, # check to see if a subclass implements _dispatch and dispatch # using that method if present. response = self.server._marshaled_dispatch( data, getattr(self, '_dispatch', None), self.path ) except Exception as e: # This should only happen if the module is buggy # internal error, report as HTTP server error self.send_response(500) # Send information about the exception if requested if hasattr(self.server, '_send_traceback_header') and \ self.server._send_traceback_header: self.send_header("X-exception", str(e)) trace = traceback.format_exc() trace = str(trace.encode('ASCII', 'backslashreplace'), 'ASCII') self.send_header("X-traceback", trace) self.send_header("Content-length", "0") self.end_headers() else: self.send_response(200) self.send_header("Content-type", "text/xml") if self.encode_threshold is not None: if len(response) > self.encode_threshold: q = self.accept_encodings().get("gzip", 0) if q: try: response = gzip_encode(response) self.send_header("Content-Encoding", "gzip") except NotImplementedError: pass self.send_header("Content-length", str(len(response))) self.end_headers() self.wfile.write(response)