simple-https-server.py

#!py -2
# taken from http://www.piware.de/2011/01/creating-an-https-server-in-python/
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2455606/basichttpserver-simplehttpserver-and-concurrency
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10175812/how-to-create-a-self-signed-certificate-with-openssl

import SocketServer
import BaseHTTPServer
import SimpleHTTPServer

import ssl
import os
import random

cert_file = 'server.pem'
make_cert_cmd = """sh -c "openssl req -new -x509 -keyout %s -out %s -days 365 -nodes -sha256 -subj '/CN=$(hostname)'" """%(cert_file, cert_file)

if not os.path.isfile(cert_file):
    if os.system(make_cert_cmd) != 0:
        raise ValueError("no cert available, and failed to generate one")

# "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python/cpython/2.7/Lib/test/ssl_servers.py"

class ForkingServer(SocketServer.ForkingMixIn, BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer):
    pass

port = 4443 + random.randint(1, 1000)
print "Listening on %d"%port
httpd = ForkingServer(('0.0.0.0', port), SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler)
httpd.socket = ssl.wrap_socket(httpd.socket, certfile=cert_file, server_side=True)
httpd.serve_forever()