Fork from https://gist.github.com/dergachev/7028596 with one change that allows for sending POST requests. It basically handles them the same as GET requests and doesn't give an error anymore :)

simple-https-server.py

# taken from http://www.piware.de/2011/01/creating-an-https-server-in-python/
# generate server.pem with the following command:
#    openssl req -new -x509 -keyout server.pem -out server.pem -days 365 -nodes
# run as follows:
#    python simple-https-server.py
# then in your browser, visit:
#    https://localhost:4443

import BaseHTTPServer, SimpleHTTPServer
import ssl

class MyHTTPRequestHandler(SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
    def do_POST(self):
        self.do_GET()

httpd = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(('localhost', 4443), MyHTTPRequestHandler)
httpd.socket = ssl.wrap_socket (httpd.socket, certfile='./server.pem', server_side=True)
httpd.serve_forever()