How to serve any file type with Python's BaseHTTPRequestHandler

Question

Consider the following example:

import string,cgi,time
from os import curdir, sep
from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer

class MyHandler(         


        

Answer 1

If you want to share files in a folder of any type, then you can also try typing the command

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

This will start the server at port 8000 and you can browse the files (via directory listing)