browser-daemon.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import webbrowser
from webbrowser import WindowsDefault, BackgroundBrowser
from urllib.parse import parse_qs, quote

chrome = "C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe"
safe = "%/:=&?~#+!$,;'@()*[]"

class ChromeBrowser(BackgroundBrowser):
    def open(self, url, new=0, autoraise=True):
        url = url if quote(url, safe=safe) == url else "? " + url
        return super().open(url, new=new, autoraise=autoraise)
            

def application(environ, start_response):
    try:
        if environ['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST':
            try:
                length = int(environ['CONTENT_LENGTH'])
            except KeyError:
                length = None
            post = parse_qs(environ['wsgi.input'].read(length).decode('utf-8'))
            [url] = post['url']
            webbrowser.open(url, new=2, autoraise=True)
            
    except Exception as e:
        print(repr(e))

    start_response('200 OK', [('Content-Type', 'text/html; charset=utf-8')])
    return []

if __name__ == '__main__':
    from wsgiref.simple_server import make_server

    webbrowser.register("chrome", ChromeBrowser, ChromeBrowser(chrome), preferred=True)
    webbrowser.register("windows-default", WindowsDefault, preferred=True)

    httpd = make_server('127.0.0.1', 1337, application)
    httpd.serve_forever()