How to stop BaseHTTPServer.serve_forever() in a BaseHTTPRequestHandler subclass?

Question

I am running my HTTPServer in a separate thread (using the threading module which has no way to stop threads...) and want to stop serving requests when the main

Answer 1

The event-loops ends on SIGTERM, Ctrl+C or when shutdown() is called.

server_close() must be called after server_forever() to close the listening socket.

import http.server

class StoppableHTTPServer(http.server.HTTPServer):
    def run(self):
        try:
            self.serve_forever()
        except KeyboardInterrupt:
            pass
        finally:
            # Clean-up server (close socket, etc.)
            self.server_close()

Simple server stoppable with user action (SIGTERM, Ctrl+C, ...):

server = StoppableHTTPServer(("127.0.0.1", 8080),
                             http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler)
server.run()

Server running in a thread:

import threading

server = StoppableHTTPServer(("127.0.0.1", 8080),
                             http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler)

# Start processing requests
thread = threading.Thread(None, server.run)
thread.start()

# ... do things ...

# Shutdown server
server.shutdown()
thread.join()