pyhttpd - a tiny HTTP deamon written in Python
It’s for my Python Course. It provides only very basic HTTP, but yet can be used for simple WWW hosting. Link.
Features:
- GET and POST methods
- New thread for new connection
- Directory listing
- Error pages
- Document index
- Deafult type and charset
- Python scripts ;)
- Configuration file
- … and my own modules to handle these
TODOs:
- Logging
- Much more stability (exceptions handling, etc.)
- Sending gzipped or chunked data (if accepted)
- Range headers
- … and many, many other
To run just edit pyhttpd.conf and change Port and Document root. Then type “python pyhttpd.py” and it should be now listening for connections.
How to run a python script and its output send to client? Pyhttpd checks if the requesting file is a python one. If so then it opens a python interpreter by a pipe, sends _GET and _POST dictionaries and file contents. And finally, sends interpreter outputs to client.
_GET and_POST are just dictionaries with variable names as keys. So if there is a foobar.py?i=500 request then _GET will be { ‘i’ : ‘500′ } (note that this is always a string value).
It’s GPL if someone asked.