Tornado POST 405: Method Not Allowed

Question

For some reason, I am not able to use POST methods in tornado.

Even the hello_world example does not work when I change GET to POST.

import tornado.ioloop
import tornado.web

class MainHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
    def post(self):
        self.write("Hello, world")

application = tornado.web.Application([
    (r"/", MainHandler),
])

if __name__ == "__main__":
    application.listen(8888)
    tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()

It throws "405 method not allowed". Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You still need get if you want access the page, because access the page using browser request with GET method.

import tornado.ioloop
import tornado.web

class MainHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
    def post(self):
        self.write("Hello, world")
    get = post # <--------------

application = tornado.web.Application([
    (r"/", MainHandler),
])

if __name__ == "__main__":
    application.listen(8888)
    tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()