Chapter 10. Programming Web Services
| The Python language has an excellent set of modules to handle various web service needs. The phrases in this chapter are designed to give you a quick insight into some of the more useful and common ways in which Python can be used to program web services. The first set of phrases show how to write CGI scripts using the Python language to send HTML to web browsers, handle form requests, and send posts to themselves, as well as allow users to upload files to the server via the web browser. The next set of phrases provide examples of using Python to create web servers to handle GET and POST requests, as well as creating a simple CGI script server. The final two phrases show how to use Python to create HTTP client connections to web servers to send POST and GET requests and then handle the response back from the web server. |
