HTTP server that accepts connections and then hangs. Used to simulate and test slow API connections.

timeout-server.py

#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
import time
from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler


class RequestHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
    def do_GET(s):
        while True:
            time.sleep(1000)


class TimeoutServer(HTTPServer):
    def __init__(self, hostname, port):
        HTTPServer.__init__(self, server_address=(hostname, port),
                            RequestHandlerClass=RequestHandler)


if __name__ == '__main__':

    server = TimeoutServer('127.0.0.1', 9000)

    print 'Will listen on %s:%i' % server.server_address

    if len(sys.argv) > 1 and sys.argv[1] == '--ssl':
        import ssl
        server.socket = ssl.wrap_socket(server.socket, certfile=sys.argv[2],
                                        server_side=True)
        print 'SSL enabled.'

    try:
        server.serve_forever()
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        pass

Above is python2. Here is python3,

#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
import time
from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
import time



class RequestHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
    def do_GET(s):
        while True:
            time.sleep(1000)


class TimeoutServer(HTTPServer):
    def __init__(self, hostname, port):
        HTTPServer.__init__(self, server_address=(hostname, port),
                            RequestHandlerClass=RequestHandler)


if __name__ == '__main__':

    server = TimeoutServer('127.0.0.1', 9000)

    print('Will listen on %s:%i' % server.server_address)

    if len(sys.argv) > 1 and sys.argv[1] == '--ssl':
        import ssl
        server.socket = ssl.wrap_socket(server.socket, certfile=sys.argv[2],
                                        server_side=True)
        print('SSL enabled.')

    try:
        server.serve_forever()
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        pass

Perfect solution for a problem I was trying to test against.

Also, I later found another tool for this (and more), called Bane. But it requires Ruby, so the above Python script worked perfectly for my needs.
https://github.com/danielwellman/bane