Python SimpleHTTPServer: Serve specific directory and send 204 instead of 404 when file not found

example.sh

python -m server.py --dir ~/Documents --port 5000

SimpleHTTPRequestHandler_Specific_Dir_with_204.py

# #!/usr/bin/env python2
import posixpath
import argparse
import urllib
import os

from SimpleHTTPServer import SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer

class RootedHTTPServer(HTTPServer):
  
    def __init__(self, base_path, *args, **kwargs):
        HTTPServer.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
        self.RequestHandlerClass.base_path = base_path


class RootedHTTPRequestHandler(SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):

    def end_headers (self):
        self.send_header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*')
        SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.end_headers(self)
        # print(vars(self), self.headers.getplist())

    def translate_path(self, path):
        path = posixpath.normpath(urllib.unquote(path))
        words = path.split('/')
        words = filter(None, words)
        path = self.base_path
        for word in words:
            drive, word = os.path.splitdrive(word)
            head, word = os.path.split(word)
            if word in (os.curdir, os.pardir):
                continue
            path = os.path.join(path, word)
        return path

    def send_head(self):
        path = self.translate_path(self.path)
        f = None
        if os.path.isdir(path):
            if not self.path.endswith('/'):
                # redirect browser - doing basically what apache does
                self.send_response(301)
                self.send_header("Location", self.path + "/")
                self.end_headers()
                return None
            for index in "index.html", "index.htm":
                index = os.path.join(path, index)
                if os.path.exists(index):
                    path = index
                    break
            else:
                return self.list_directory(path)
        ctype = self.guess_type(path)
        try:
            f = open(path, 'rb')
        except IOError:
            # make 404 to 204
            self.send_response(204, "No Content")
            self.end_headers()
            return f
        self.send_response(200)
        self.send_header("Content-type", ctype)
        fs = os.fstat(f.fileno())
        self.send_header("Content-Length", str(fs[6]))
        self.send_header("Last-Modified", self.date_time_string(fs.st_mtime))
        self.end_headers()
        return f


def test(HandlerClass=RootedHTTPRequestHandler, ServerClass=RootedHTTPServer):

    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument('--port', '-p', default=8000, type=int)
    parser.add_argument('--dir', '-d', default=os.getcwd(), type=str)
    args = parser.parse_args()

    server_address = ('', args.port)

    httpd = ServerClass(args.dir, server_address, HandlerClass)

    sa = httpd.socket.getsockname()
    print "Serving HTTP on", sa[0], "port", sa[1], "..."
    httpd.serve_forever()



if __name__ == '__main__':
    test()

thanks.txt

base on https://gist.github.com/diegosorrilha/812787c01b65fde6dec870ab97212abd