Listen for and dump HTTP requests to STDOUT

http_dump.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: © 2022 Georg Sauthoff <[email protected]>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSL-1.0

import argparse
import http.server
import json
import sys

class Dumper(http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
    def do_GET(self, method='GET'):
        print(f'\n{method} {self.path}\n{self.headers}')
        self.send_response(200)
        self.end_headers()

    def do_DELETE(self):
        return self.do_GET('DELETE')

    def do_POST(self, method='POST'):
        n = int(self.headers.get('content-length', 0))
        body = self.rfile.read(n)
        print(f'\n{method} {self.path}\n{self.headers}{body}\n')
        if self.headers.get('content-type') == 'application/json':
            d = json.loads(body)
            print(json.dumps(d, indent=4, sort_keys=True))
            print()
        self.send_response(200)
        self.end_headers()

    def do_PUT(self):
        return self.do_POST('PUT')

    def log_message(self, format, *args):
        pass


def main():
    p = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Dump HTTP requests to stdout')
    p.add_argument('address', help='bind address')
    p.add_argument('port', type=int, help='bind port')
    xs = p.parse_args();
    s = http.server.HTTPServer((xs.address, xs.port), Dumper)
    s.serve_forever()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    sys.exit(main())