A very simple Python HTTP service

If you need a simple Web Server, but you don't want to download and install the complex HTTP service programs, such as: Apache,iss. Well, Python might help you. Use Python to complete a simple built-in HTTP server. As a result, you can display your directories and files in HTTP. Tiao only one thing to do, is to install a python.

In fact, this is a very useful way to share files. It is simple to implement a tiny HTTP service program, which requires only one command line under Python. Here's the command line: (assuming we need to share our directory /home/haoel and the IP address is 192.168.1.1)

12	$ cd/home/haoel$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer

That's fine, and our HTTP service listens on port No. 8000. You will get the following information:

Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 Port 8000 ...

You can open your browser (ie or Firefox) and enter the following URL:

http://192.168.1.1:8000

If your directory has a file name named index.html, then this file will become a default page, if there is no such file, then the directory list will be displayed.

If you want to change the port number, you can use the following command:

1	$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080

If you just want this HTTP server to serve your local environment, then you need to customize your Python program, here's an example:

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import sysimport BaseHTTPServerfrom SimpleHTTPServer import SimpleHTTPRequestHandlerHandlerClass = SimpleHTTPRequestHandlerServerClass  = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServerProtocol     = "HTTP/1.0"if sys.argv[1:]:    port = int(sys.argv[1])else:    port = 8000server_address = (‘127.0.0.1‘, port) HandlerClass.protocol_version = Protocolhttpd = ServerClass(server_address, HandlerClass)sa = httpd.socket.getsockname()print "Serving HTTP on", sa[0], "port", sa[1], "..."httpd.serve_forever()

Note: All of these things can work under Windows or Cygwin.

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A very simple Python HTTP service