Simple Tornado server example

tornado-example.py

import tornado
import tornado.ioloop
import tornado.web

from tornado.httpclient import AsyncHTTPClient


class MainHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
    @gen.coroutine
    def get(self):
        http = AsyncHTTPClient(method="POST")
        print http
        response = yield http.fetch("http://google.com")
        print response
        self.write("Num Bytes Fetched from Google: " + str(len(response.body)))


def make_app():
    return tornado.web.Application([
        (r"/", MainHandler),
    ])

app = make_app()
app.listen(8888)
tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.current().start()