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A Simple HTTP Web Server (Python recipe) by Joe B. Lewis
ActiveState Code (http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578172/)

A Simple python script that acts as a web server, and handles requests

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import SimpleHTTPServer
import SocketServer

PORT = 8000

Handler = SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler

httpd = SocketServer.TCPServer(("", PORT), Handler)

print "serving at port", PORT
httpd.serve_forever()
Tags: httpserver, webserver

2 comments

Kent Johnson 11 years, 10 months ago  # | flag

This is straight from the documentation...

Alan Franzoni 11 years, 10 months ago  # | flag

You don't even need to create any code.

python -m SimpleHTTPServer <PORT_NUMBER>