How to receive and parse a HTTP incoming request using python?

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gm3dmo · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-18 13:47:24Z

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You can do:

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080

By default it serves the current working directory.

To get an idea of how this is put together/parses the requests or to work out how to build one for your own needs, look at the "SimpleHTTPServer.py" module in the lib directory of your python install.

You could also look at the built in webservers that the web frameworks like django, werkzeug, cherry-py provide. Stackoverflow has quite a few interesting questions.

answered Aug 18, 2010 at 13:47

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Daniel Kluev · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-20 07:42:20Z

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There are dozens of solutions for this, of all kinds and flavors.

The most basic would be SimpleHTTPServer mentioned by @davey.

Other options would be:

http://webpy.org/ - simple, lightweight framework

http://www.tornadoweb.org/ - flexible and scalable web server

http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/TwistedWeb - single-threaded, event-driven server and framework

http://bottle.paws.de/ - single-file server and framework

answered Aug 20, 2010 at 7:42

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