The python documentation states that BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer is a subclass of SocketServer.TCPServer, which dows support a shutdown method - but it is missing in HTTPServer. 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 t...
I am working on a daemon where I need to embed a HTTP server. I am attempting to do it with BaseHTTPServer, which when I run it in the foreground, it works fine, but when I try and fork the daemon into the background, it stops working. My main application continues to work, but BaseHTTPServer does not. I believe this has something to...
What is the difference between BaseHTTPServer and SimpleHTTPServer? When and where should i use these? ...
Is there a way to make BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer be multi-threaded like SocketServer.ThreadingTCPServer? ...
BaseHTTPHandler from the BaseHTTPServer module doesn't seem to provide any convenient way to access http request parameters. What is the best way to parse the GET parameters from the path, and the POST parameters from the request body? Right now, I'm using this for GET: def do_GET(self): parsed_path = urlparse.urlparse(self.path) ...
I'm sending a couple of files from an HTML form to my server which is based on BaseHTTPServer. Within my do_POST I'm getting a string from rfile.read(length) which looks like some sort of multipart MIME string. Google is not being helpful on how I can decode this into something usable. The output looks like this : ------------------...
I am writing a simple http server as part of my project. Below is a skeleton of my script: from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler class MyHanlder(BaseHTTPRequestHandler): def do_GET(self): self.send_response(200) self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html') self.end_headers() ...
I know that I am supposed to use cgi.FieldStorage for that. But what do I initialize it with? def do_GET(self): form = cgi.FieldStorage(WHAT SHOULD BE HERE?!) thanks! I did search, but didn't find an answer :( ...
I am trying to create my own functions in the subclass of BaseHTTPRequestHandler as such class Weblog(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler): def do_HEAD(self): self.send_response(200) self.send_header("Content-type", "text/html") self.end_headers() def do_GET(self): """Respond to a GET request.""" if self.pat...