How to parse the “request body” using python CGI?

Question

I just need to write a simple python CGI script to parse the contents of a POST request containing JSON. This is only test code so that I can test a client application until th

Answer 1

notice that if you call cgi.FieldStorage() before in your code, you can't get the body data from stdin, because it just be read once.

Answer 2

If you're using CGI, just read data from stdin:

import sys
data = sys.stdin.read()