A web service, made to fail.

toggle.py

import sys
import SimpleHTTPServer
from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler
import SocketServer
import urlparse

PORT = int(sys.argv[1])

healthy = True

class ToggleHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
    def do_GET(self):
        global healthy
        parsed_path = urlparse.urlparse(self.path)
        print "GET: [%s]\n" % parsed_path.path

        if parsed_path.path == "/toggle":
            healthy = not healthy
            print "Setting health to [%s]\n" % healthy
            self.send_response(200)
            message = "Set health to [%s]" % healthy
        elif healthy:
            self.send_response(200)
            message = "OK"
        else:
            self.send_response(410)
            message = "Gone"
        self.end_headers()
        self.wfile.write(message)
        return

httpd = SocketServer.TCPServer(("", PORT), ToggleHandler)

print "Bound to port [%s]" % PORT

httpd.serve_forever()