:LastChangedDate: $LastChangedDate$ :LastChangedRevision: $LastChangedRevision$ :LastChangedBy: $LastChangedBy$ Other Request Bodies ==================== The previous example demonstrated how to accept the payload of a ``POST`` carrying HTML form data. What about ``POST`` requests with data in some other format? Or even ``PUT`` requests? Here is an example which demonstrates how to get *any* request body, regardless of its format - using the request's :api:`twisted.web.iweb.IRequest.content ` attribute. The only significant difference between this example and the previous is that instead of accessing ``request.args`` in ``render_POST`` , it uses ``request.content`` to get the request's body directly: .. code-block:: python ... def render_POST(self, request): return 'You submitted: %s' % (cgi.escape(request.content.read()),) ``request.content`` is a file-like object, so the body is read from it. The exact type may vary, so avoid relying on non-file methods you may find (such as ``getvalue`` when happens to be a ``StringIO`` instance). Here's the complete source for this example - again, almost identical to the previous ``POST`` example, with only ``render_POST`` changed: .. code-block:: python from twisted.web.server import Site from twisted.web.resource import Resource from twisted.internet import reactor import cgi class FormPage(Resource): def render_GET(self, request): return '' def render_POST(self, request): return 'You submitted: %s' % (cgi.escape(request.content.read()),) root = Resource() root.putChild("form", FormPage()) factory = Site(root) reactor.listenTCP(8880, factory) reactor.run()