A simple HTTPSServer to dump POST payload to the console

httpsServer.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# httpsServer.py
#
# Inspired by: https://anvileight.com/blog/posts/simple-python-http-server/
####################################################################################
'''
Start the server:

httpsServer.py  \
  --host 192.168.122.1 \
  --port 6725 \
  --keyFile /home/hhuebler/data/oscp/hetzner/certs/hhuelinux2.key \
  --certFile /home/hhuebler/data/oscp/hetzner/certs/hhuelinux2.crt

To test the server with curl run:

curl -k -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"name":"hhue", "age":"-1", "xx": "yy"}' https://192.168.122.1:6725

which should print a well formatted json object to the console.
'''

from http.server import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler
import argparse
import ssl
import json
from io import BytesIO


class SimpleHTTPRequestHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
    def do_POST(self):
        content_length = int(self.headers['Content-Length'])
        content_type = self.headers['Content-Type']
        body = self.rfile.read(content_length)
        self.send_response(200)
        self.end_headers()
        response = BytesIO()
        self.wfile.write(response.getvalue())
        if (content_type == "application/json"):
          jsonBody = json.loads(body.decode('utf-8'))
          print(json.dumps(jsonBody, indent=2))
        else:
          print(body.decode('utf-8'))

    def log_message(*args):
        pass


def parseArgs():
    """
    Function to parse the command line arguments and return them as an args namespace object
    """
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog='httpsServer.py',
                    description='Acts as an HTTP server to dump POST data sent to it.',
                    epilog='Good luck!')
    parser.add_argument('--host', type=str, help='Hostname or ip to listen for requests.', default='127.0.0.1')
    parser.add_argument('--port', type=int, help='Port number to listen for requests.', default=6725)
    parser.add_argument('--keyFile', type=argparse.FileType('r', encoding='utf-8'), help='Path to the key file for the server.', required=True)
    parser.add_argument('--certFile', type=argparse.FileType('r', encoding='utf-8'), help='Path to the certificate file for the server.', required=True)

    args = parser.parse_args()
    return args

##
## Parse the arguments
##
args = parseArgs()

httpd = HTTPServer((args.host, args.port), SimpleHTTPRequestHandler)

httpd.socket = ssl.wrap_socket (httpd.socket,
        keyfile=args.keyFile.name,
        certfile=args.certFile.name, server_side=True)

httpd.serve_forever()