Trying to send an image from Flutter application to python Flask project using HTTP POST request, but the server log does not register any POST requests being made.

Flutter client side code is making a POST request like this

ElevatedButton(
    onPressed: () async {
        final ImagePicker _picker = ImagePicker();
        var image = await ImagePicker().pickImage(source: ImageSource.gallery);
        File file = File(image!.path); 
              
        var request = http.MultipartRequest('POST', Uri.parse('http://127.0.0.1:5000/'));
        request.files.add(await http.MultipartFile.fromPath('imagefile', file.path));
        var data = await request.send;

                       
        print("request: " + request.toString());

This is printed to console when I run

flutter: request: POST http://127.0.0.1:5000/

But on the server side log Flask is not receiving a POST request. The log looks like this

127.0.0.1 - - [25/Apr/2024 11:51:14] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 405 -

Flask server side code looks like this

@app.route("/", methods=['POST'])
def home():

    if 'imagefile' not in request.files:
        return 'File Not Found'
        
    try:
        imagefile = request.files.get['imagefile']
        
        if imagefile.filename == '':
            return 'No File Selected'

        # image manipulation code that i don't think is relevent to the issue 

        return 'Done'
    
    except Exception as e:
        return f'Error: {e}'
    

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run()