Questions tagged [http.server]
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Python http.server - how to serve HTML from directory above cwd
I've got a question that I could really use some guidance with. I am simply trying to serve HTML from a directory that is not the same directory as the server itself. Ideally, I'd like to move one level above the server's directory, and serve a file…
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http.server not responding until after the connection closes
I have an application which uses the requests package to POST to a server. In my testing environment, I want to stand up a simple server so that I can validate the client's requests. However, when I call requests.post, it just hangs. The server…
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How to detect client disconnection when servicing a streaming endpoint with http.server
We have a simple web server written in Python's http.server. One of its endpoints serves streaming data - a series of events, with new events sent as they occur. We've successfully set up this endpoint so that it delivers the data as expected.…
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Python server showing html as text rather than rendering it
I'm trying to make a server the long way for more control/ learning. when i try to make a simple one with bash i get mimetype errors.
I must be looking at this the wrong way but my server seems to make the browser render the html as text. the html i…
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How to remove .html extension from a site localhosted using python 3 http.server
Okay so first off let me be clear that I have "BASIC" knowledge of (HTML, CSS and JS) and a little bit of Python and am not much aware of various technologies and programming stuffs. So I hope the answer would be easy.
I created a sample folder…
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Disable directory listing, python http Server
I have written a webUi in python (which is safely isolated from the internet, but I do not want the directory to be searchable).
How can I disable the directory listing if I use e.g. this link?
https://localhost:8080///
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http.server (SimpleHTTPServer) serve file.html instead of dir (using cmd)
Is it possible to serve not a index of a directory but rather an html file using Python SimpleHTTPServer on path '/'?
Having directory with one file login.html serves a directory index on path '/'.
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 7800
I want a content…
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Python http.server options
Recently I was trying to developing my DownloadManager , cause of that I created test server by this command in Terminal:
python3 -m http.server 8080
but when I was trying to take range of a specific file , it always give me whole of file ! , when…
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Fix "SharedArrayBuffer is not defined" on local http.server
I use python3 -m http.server --bind localhost to quickly host local versions of web content for testing.
I was using this to host a web version of a game I was working on and ran into this error:
Uncaught ReferenceError: SharedArrayBuffer is not…
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Run http.server in background (python, not bash)?
I need to start a server on localhost:3000 when starting python TestCase and then close it after TestCase finished.
I just realized that http.server does not detach the server so after starting the server, the TestCase does not continue until the…
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Running python -m http.server does not load localhost
Previously when I ran the python -m http.server command from a folder it would show the link as something like "http://localhost:5500", but after I accidentally installed npm install http-server it no longer correctly shows localhost and instead…
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Python http.server module on Termux (Android terminal emulator app) cannot serve on local network ip address
I am trying to run:
python -m http.server --bind 192.168.xxxxx #my local network ip address
on Termux, an Android terminal emulator app.
However, I get the OSError: [Errno 99] Cannot assign requested address exception.
The same code works on my…
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Python 3 Server command update
I am new to Python so i wanted to ask you for help.
In old versions of Python to create a server which would not store any logs and its standard output was redirected to dev/null to avoid saving information, we executed the following…
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HTTP POST with axios: net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE
I am trying to make a HTTP Post request through axios:
const onSubmit = (values) => {
console.log("submit", values);
// ctx.$i18n.locale = "en";
axios.post("http://192.168.3.2:8081", { // HTTP POST
name: state.name,
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What errors are outputted to http.Server's ErrorLog struct field?
I'm trying to understand the purpose of an ErrorLog struct field in http.Server struct. By its name I suspect that those are some kind of errors, but which ones?
What would trigger errors being outputted there? Broken network? Too large http…
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