simple_http_get_server.py

# python 2 HTTP GET single-threaded server
# input: HTTP XML payload loded from payload.txt file
#
import SimpleHTTPServer
import SocketServer

hostName = "localhost"
serverPort = 8000

payload = ""
with file("payload.txt") as fp:
	payload = fp.read()

class Handler(SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
    def do_GET(self):
        self.send_response(200)
        self.send_header('Content-type', 'application/xml')
        self.end_headers()
        self.wfile.write(payload)

print "starting %s:%d"%(hostName, serverPort)
httpd = SocketServer.TCPServer((hostName, serverPort), Handler)
httpd.serve_forever()

print "done"