A non-caching version of Python's SimpleHTTPServer

server_notcached.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import SimpleHTTPServer

class MyHTTPRequestHandler(SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
    def end_headers(self):
        self.send_my_headers()
        SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.end_headers(self)

    def send_my_headers(self):
        self.send_header("Cache-Control", "no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate")
        self.send_header("Pragma", "no-cache")
        self.send_header("Expires", "0")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    SimpleHTTPServer.test(HandlerClass=MyHTTPRequestHandler)

How does one use this?

@pritster5 put it into a python file (e.g. server.py) in the directory that you want to serve, then run using the command-line: python server.py - it will then start the server on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 by default.

This only works with python 2.x, use this modification for it to work with v2 or v3

#!/usr/bin/env python
try:
    from http import server # Python 3
except ImportError:
    import SimpleHTTPServer as server # Python 2

class MyHTTPRequestHandler(server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
    def end_headers(self):
        self.send_my_headers()
        server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.end_headers(self)

    def send_my_headers(self):
        self.send_header("Cache-Control", "no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate")
        self.send_header("Pragma", "no-cache")
        self.send_header("Expires", "0")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    server.test(HandlerClass=MyHTTPRequestHandler)

Cheers! This works perfectly! Thank you. 😄

THANK YOU 😭