using curl to send a file to a remote machine

server.py

# on the remote server you want to use to send a file, you run:
# curl -F "file=@/log.txt" http://100.100.100.100:8000/
# this will create the file log.txt in /tmp that will ideally containt he log.txt from the remote machine

from http.server import SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
import os

class FileUploadHandler(SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
    def do_POST(self):
        content_length = int(self.headers['Content-Length'])
        uploaded_file = self.rfile.read(content_length)
        
        file_name = os.path.basename("log.txt")

        # Provide the base directory path where the uploaded file should be stored
        base_directory = '/tmp'
        file_path = os.path.join(base_directory, file_name)

        with open(file_path, 'wb') as file:
            file.write(uploaded_file)

        self.send_response(200)
        self.end_headers()
        self.wfile.write(b'File uploaded successfully')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    from http.server import HTTPServer
    server_address = ('', 8000)
    httpd = HTTPServer(server_address, FileUploadHandler)
    print('Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000...')
    httpd.serve_forever()