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Articles by harsh manvar
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How to read all HTTP headers in Python CGI script?
It is possible to get a custom request header's value in an apache CGI script with python. The solution is similar to this.Apache's mod_cgi will set environment variables for each HTTP request header received, the variables set in this manner will all have an HTTP_ prefix, so for example x-client-version: 1.2.3 will be available as variable HTTP_X_CLIENT_VERSION.So, to read the above custom header just call os.environ["HTTP_X_CLIENT_VERSION"].The below script will print all HTTP_* headers and values −#!/usr/bin/env python import os print "Content-Type: text/html" print "Cache-Control: no-cache" print print "" for headername, headervalue in os.environ.iteritems(): if headername.startswith("HTTP_"): print "{0} = {1}".format(headername, headervalue) ...
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