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Really simple python web server to serve a maintenance message to the web
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| import string,cgi,time, datetime | |
| from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer | |
| class MyHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler): | |
| def do_GET(self): | |
| try: | |
| self.send_response(503) # let bots know whats up | |
| self.send_header('Content-type','text/html') | |
| self.end_headers() | |
| self.wfile.write('<!DOCTYPE html>\n<meta charset=utf-8 />\n<title>Notification page</title>\n') | |
| self.wfile.write('<style>body {max-width:400px; background:#fff8ea;}</style>\n') | |
| self.wfile.write('\n<p>\nSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,<br />\n<br />\naufgrund eines technischen Problems ist die Seite derzeit offline. Wir arbeiten bereits an einer Lösung und werden wohl bereits morgen wieder wie gewohnt erreichbar sein. <br />\n<br />\nVielen Dank für Ihr Verständnis,<br />\nDas Team\n</p>\n\n') | |
| self.wfile.write('<!-- '+datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')+' // '+self.path+'-->\n') | |
| return | |
| except IOError: | |
| self.send_error(500,'Internal error') | |
| class TimeoutingHTTPServer(HTTPServer): | |
| def finish_request(self, request, client_address): | |
| request.settimeout(5) # Really short timeout as there is only 1 thread | |
| HTTPServer.finish_request(self, request, client_address) | |
| def main(): | |
| try: | |
| server = TimeoutingHTTPServer(('',80), MyHandler) | |
| print 'Listening...' | |
| server.serve_forever() | |
| except KeyboardInterrupt: | |
| print 'quit...' | |
| server.socket.close() | |
| if __name__ == '__main__': | |
| main() |
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Good to know. I was testing out the solution here for request retries so this worked perfectly for that.