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# 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 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:

    ...
        def render_POST(self, request):
            return '<html><body>You submitted: %s</body></html>' % (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:

    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 '<html><body><form method="POST"><input name="the-field" type="text" /></form></body></html>'

        def render_POST(self, request):
            return '<html><body>You submitted: %s</body></html>' % (cgi.escape(request.content.read()),)

    root = Resource()
    root.putChild("form", FormPage())
    factory = Site(root)
    reactor.listenTCP(8880, factory)
    reactor.run()