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Upper-case the path

Problem

Make the server do real work with the client’s input, rather than returning a fixed string. Write a server that, in a loop (as on the previous page), reads each request, takes the requested path, and sends it back upper-cased — so a request for /hello replies with HELLO. The path is the second word of the request’s first line (GET /hello HTTP/1.0); drop the leading / before upper-casing it. It keeps serving request after request; stop it with Ctrl-C.

Example

Requesting a path with curl returns it in capitals:

$ curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/hello
HELLO

Solution

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