Python HTTPServer Exceptions cause it to fail

Question

I've tried many different ways of writing a simple HTTP server for Python (using IronPython in a hosted environment) and whenever there is an error (e.g. run-time error) the Python environment just hangs, rather than shutting down and reporting the error.

Update:

There is a comment on an answer to another SO question that suggest that calling "self.server.shutdown()" in a request handler also causes a Python web server to hang in Windows.

So possibly run-time exceptions lead to the same problem.

Could you be more specific on what kind of errors (and corresponding code) cause it to crash? — Jesvin Jose, Nov 10 '11 at 09:09
No crash, it just hangs. I'm not sure how to get any more diagnostics. — cdiggins, Nov 10 '11 at 14:35

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 13 '12 at 19:51

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You should probably do something along the lines of:

try:
    httpd.serve_forever()
except RuntimeError:
    httpd.shutdown()
    sys.exit()

btw, this is for python 3 and it assumes that you have the sys module imported.

answered Aug 13 '12 at 19:51

Lobabob

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