Simple Python HTTP Server with handler for POST and GET, no additional libraries required

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# Python HTTP Server!

This is very basic Python HTTP server with ability of handling GET and POST requests.
For Python 2.x.
For Python 3.x see here: https://gist.github.com/vgezer/59c002587e655ff69b8f2f1f0c4ca7a4
This one handles multiple requests by creating multiple threads, preventing e.g. unresponsive server until restart, caused by Chrome.

## Installation
No installation!
## Configuration
Port number can be changed editing `PORT_NUMBER` value.
## Execution
`python http.py`

Tested on Windows and Linux
## Examples
* http://localhost:8080 # Homepage
* http://localhost:8080/test?name=Hello # GET Example
* http://localhost:8080/config # POST Example, send a value with form named "name"

http.py

#!/usr/bin/python
from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler
from SocketServer import ThreadingMixIn
import urlparse
import cgi

PORT_NUMBER = 8080

#This class will handles any incoming request from
#the browser 
class Handler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
	
	#Handler for the GET requests
	def do_GET(self):
		if self.path=="/":
			self.send_response(200)
			self.send_header('Content-type','text/html')
			self.end_headers()
			# Send the html message
			self.wfile.write("Hello World! <br />")
			self.wfile.write("<a href='test?name=Hello'>See GET in action.</a> <br />")
			self.wfile.write("<form action='/config' method='POST'>Type anything here and press enter to see POST in action: <input type='text' name='name' id='name' value='Hello'/></form>")
			return
		elif self.path.startswith("/test"):
			form = urlparse.parse_qs(urlparse.urlparse(self.path).query)
			#print "Test: " + str(form['test'])
				
			self.send_response(200)
			self.send_header('Content-type','text/html')
			self.end_headers()
			# Send the html message
			if(form.get('name') != None):
				self.wfile.write("Chosen name: %s <br />\n" % str(form['name'][0]))
			self.wfile.write("Yes!")
			return
		else:
			self.send_response(200)
			self.send_header('Content-type','text/html')
			self.end_headers()
			# Send the html message
			self.wfile.write("Your server is running!")
			return
	#Handler for the POST requests
	def do_POST(self):
		if self.path=="/config":
			self.send_response(200)
			self.send_header('Content-type', "text/html")
			self.end_headers()
			form = cgi.FieldStorage(
				fp=self.rfile, 
				headers=self.headers,
				environ={'REQUEST_METHOD':'POST',
						 'CONTENT_TYPE':self.headers['Content-Type'],
			})
			if(form != None):
				self.wfile.write("Form value: " + form["name"].value)
		else:
			self.send_response(200)
			self.send_header('Content-type', "text/html")
			self.end_headers()
			self.wfile.write("Send POST request to '/config' with form name 'name' to see the result!")

class ThreadedHTTPServer(ThreadingMixIn, HTTPServer):
	""" This class allows to handle requests in separated threads.
		No further content needed, don't touch this. """

try:
	if __name__ == '__main__':
		server = ThreadedHTTPServer(('', PORT_NUMBER), Handler)
		
		print('Started httpserver on port: %s' % PORT_NUMBER)
		server.serve_forever()

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