Search code examples
pythonpython-3.xhttphttpserver

Python SimpleHTTP Server rfile.readlines() taking long time

I have a simple HTTP server having a do_POST method for uploading image file.

class SimpleHTTPRequestHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):

    def do_POST(self):
        data = self.rfile.readlines()

Its taking long time for reading the image binary data. How can I make it read the image data faster.

Solution

  • Found solution for reading whole incoming binary data.

    data = self.rfile.read(int(self.headers['Content-Length']))

    Where Content-Length entity-header field indicates the size of the entity-body, (Note: remember to convert the content-length type into int before passing it into read())