Basic HTTP Server in Python

http_server.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import SocketServer
from os.path import getsize
from mimetypes import read_mime_types
from datetime import date

# Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:28:53 GMT

template = """HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: %s
Server: GonowServer
Content-Length: %d
Content-Type: %s

%s
"""

class HTTPHandler(SocketServer.BaseRequestHandler):
    
    def handle(self):
        self.data = self.request.recv(1024).strip()
        verb, resource = self.data.split()[0:2]

        with open("site" + resource) as f:
            response = template % (
                date.today().isocalendar(),
                getsize(f.name),
                read_mime_types(f.name),
                f.read()
            )

            self.request.sendall(response)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    HOST, PORT = "localhost", 80
    server = SocketServer.TCPServer((HOST, PORT), HTTPHandler)
    server.serve_forever()