Null Response Server

no-resp-server.py

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

PORT_NUMBER = 8080

#This class will handles any incoming request from
#the browser
class myHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):

  #Handler for the GET requests
  def do_GET(self):
    # optionally set headers
    # self.send_response(400)
    # self.send_header('Content-type','text/html')
    # self.end_headers()

    # Send the null response
    self.wfile.write(b'')

    return

try:
  #Create a web server and define the handler to manage the
  #incoming request
  server = HTTPServer(('', PORT_NUMBER), myHandler)
  print 'Started httpserver on port ' , PORT_NUMBER

  #Wait forever for incoming htto requests
  server.serve_forever()

except KeyboardInterrupt:
  print '^C received, shutting down the web server'
  server.socket.close()

$ python no-resp-server.py