Ponton’s site

It’s for my Python Course. It provides only very basic HTTP, but yet can be used for simple WWW hosting. Source.

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.

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