Request object¶

Request object is a dict with keys:

request :: args¶

type

dict

Query string arguments

request :: headers¶

type

tornado.netutil.HTTPHeaders

HTTP headers

request :: cookies¶

type

dict

The dict mapping cookie’s names to their datas. Cookie data is a dict with keys: name, value, path, expires, etc. See possible keys at https://docs.python.org/2/library/cookie.html#morsel-objects

request :: path¶

type

str

The path fragment of the requested URL

request :: method¶

type

str

Method of HTTP request

request :: data¶

type

bytes

The data submitted with HTTP request

request :: files¶

type

???

Files sent in request (in case of form/multipart-data).

request :: client_ip¶

type

str

IP address of the client sent the request

request :: done¶

type

bool

The flag means if the request has been performed

request :: charset¶

type

str

The character set which data of request are encoded with. This is the only request parameter which is set by YOU and not by the server. If you expect the data from the client would be in non UTF-8 encoding then specify correct encoding with:
server.request['charset'] = '<encoding>'