simplehttpserver

I am trying to use http.server to test all the links in a Python project. I can get my script to work if I start the server before running my script, and then the server stops when I close the terminal window. But I'd really like the script itself to start and stop the server. I made a test script to simply start the server, get a page and prove the server is running, and then stop the server. I can't seem to get the pid of the server. When I try to kill the pid that this script reports after the script runs, I get a message that there is no such process; but the server is still running. How

I recently tried implementing the SimpleHTTPRequestHandler to accept AJAX requests according to this . Although everything seems to work as far as receiving the request from the client, I cannot send anything back to the client, when I try to self.wfile.write("foo"), I get a response back in the client; however, the response text from the XmlObject is completely blank!?! If anybody can shed any light on this, that would be great! EDIT: I think my AJAX call is structured correctly since I am getting responses from Python (I've checked in debug mode); however, I am not getting any message back

I've set up a threaded (with Python threads) HTTP server by creating a class that inherits from HTTPServer and ThreadingMixIn: class ThreadedHTTPServer(ThreadingMixIn, HTTPServer): pass I have a handler class which inherits from BaseHTTPRequestHandler, and I start the server with something like this: class MyHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler): ... server = ThreadedHTTPServer(('localhost', 8080), MyHandler) # Prevent issues with socket reuse server.allow_reuse_address = True # Start the server server.serve_forever() This is all pretty straightforward. The problem that I'm encountering is that,

Can you recommend a minimalistic python webserver that I can embedded in my Desktop Application. Tim Lesher How minimalistic and for what purpose? SimpleHTTPServer comes free as part of the standard Python libraries. If you need more features, look into CherryPy or (at the top end) Twisted . I'm becoming a big fan of the newly released circuits library. It's a component/event framework that comes with a very nice set of packages for creating web servers & apps. Here's the simple web example from the site: from circuits.lib.web import Server, Controller class HelloWorld(Controller): def index

I'm writing a Python module that wraps out a certain web service API. It's all REST, so relatively straightforward to implement. However, I found a problem when it comes to unit testing: as I don't run the services I made this module for, I don't want to hammer them, but at the same time, I need to retrieve data to run my tests. I looked at SimpleHTTPServer, which would be OK. I solved part of the issue I had, but now, since I can't seem to terminate the thread, I get issues with "address already in use" when launching the test application more than once. Here's some sample code PORT = 8001

I'm looking to use a local webserver to run a series of python scripts for the user. For various unavoidable reasons, the python script must run locally, not on a server. As a result, I'll be using HTML+browser as the UI, which I'm comfortable with, for the front end. I've been looking, therefore, for a lightweight web server that can execute python scripts, sitting in the background on a machine, ideally as a Windows service. Security and extensibility are not high priorities as it's all running internally on a small network. Should I run a native python webserver as a Windows service (in