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#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
Very simple HTTP server in python.
Usage::
./dummy-web-server.py [<port>]
Send a GET request::
curl http://localhost
Send a HEAD request::
curl -I http://localhost
Send a POST request::
curl -d "foo=bar&bin=baz" http://localhost
I tested by Python 3.4.3 on Windows 8.1.
Python 3.4.3 (v3.4.3:9b73f1c3e601, Feb 24 2015, 22:43:06) [MSC v.1600 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
"""
# https://docs.python.org/2/library/basehttpserver.html
# Note The BaseHTTPServer module has been merged into http.server in Python 3.
from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
# https://docs.python.org/2/library/socketserver.html
# Note The SocketServer module has been renamed to socketserver in Python 3.
import socketserver
class S(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
def _set_headers(self):
self.send_response(200)
self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html')
self.end_headers()
def do_GET(self):
self._set_headers()
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23264569/python-3-x-basehttpserver-or-http-server
self.wfile.write(b"<html><body><h1>hi!</h1></body></html>")
self.log_rawRequestHeader()
def do_HEAD(self):
self._set_headers()
self.log_rawRequestHeader()
def do_POST(self):
# Doesn't do anything with posted data
self._set_headers()
self.wfile.write(b"<html><body><h1>POST!</h1></body></html>")
self.log_rawRequestHeader()
self.log_rawRequestBody()
def log_rawRequestHeader(self):
# https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.server.html#http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler
print(self.command, self.path, self.request_version)
print(self.headers.as_string())
def log_rawRequestBody(self):
# https://docs.python.org/3/library/email.message.html#email.message.Message
# https://github.com/Chanmoro/python/blob/master/WebServerSample/dummy_webapi.py
# TODO: Error Handling
print(self.rfile.read(int(self.headers.get('Content-Length'))).decode('utf-8'))
def run(server_class=HTTPServer, handler_class=S, port=80):
server_address = ('', port)
httpd = server_class(server_address, handler_class)
print('Starting httpd...')
httpd.serve_forever()
if __name__ == "__main__":
from sys import argv
if len(argv) == 2:
run(port=int(argv[1]))
else:
run()
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