BaseHTTPServer Namespace Reference

Data Structures
class	HTTPServer
class	BaseHTTPRequestHandler

Functions
def	test

Variables
string	__version__ = "0.2"
list	__all__ = ["HTTPServer", "BaseHTTPRequestHandler"]
string	DEFAULT_ERROR_MESSAGE

Detailed Description

HTTP server base class.

Note: the class in this module doesn't implement any HTTP request; see
SimpleHTTPServer for simple implementations of GET, HEAD and POST
(including CGI scripts).

Contents:

- BaseHTTPRequestHandler: HTTP request handler base class
- test: test function

XXX To do:

- send server version
- log requests even later (to capture byte count)
- log user-agent header and other interesting goodies
- send error log to separate file
- are request names really case sensitive?

Function Documentation

def BaseHTTPServer.test	(		HandlerClass = BaseHTTPRequestHandler,
			ServerClass = HTTPServer
	)

Test the HTTP request handler class.

This runs an HTTP server on port 8000 (or the first command line
argument).

Definition at line 462 of file BaseHTTPServer.py.

         ServerClass = HTTPServer):
    """Test the HTTP request handler class.

    This runs an HTTP server on port 8000 (or the first command line
    argument).

    """

    if sys.argv[1:]:
        port = int(sys.argv[1])
    else:
        port = 8000
    server_address = ('', port)

    httpd = ServerClass(server_address, HandlerClass)

    sa = httpd.socket.getsockname()
    print "Serving HTTP on", sa[0], "port", sa[1], "..."
    httpd.serve_forever()