Questions tagged [simplehttpserver]

An example of using SimpleHTTPServer to serve up an XML document with the /test url parameter using python

import SimpleHTTPServer, SocketServer
import urlparse

PORT = 80

class MyHandler(SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
   def do_GET(self):

       # Parse query data to find out what was requested
       parsedParams = urlparse.urlparse(self.path)
       queryParsed = urlparse.parse_qs(parsedParams.query)

       # request is either for a file to be served up or our test
       if parsedParams.path == "/test":
          self.processMyRequest(queryParsed)
       else:
          # Default to serve up a local file 
          SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.do_GET(self);

   def processMyRequest(self, query):

       self.send_response(200)
       self.send_header('Content-Type', 'application/xml')
       self.end_headers()

       self.wfile.write("<?xml version='1.0'?>");
       self.wfile.write("<sample>Some XML</sample>");
       self.wfile.close();

Handler = MyHandler

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

print "serving at port", PORT
httpd.serve_forever()

Another using go [ListenAndServe]2

import ("encoding/xml"; "fmt"; "log"; "net/http")

type xmlresponse struct {
    Message string
    Name string
}

// XML response example
func XmlRequestHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
    w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/xml")
    w.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK)
    xmlGen := xml.NewEncoder(w)
    xmlGen.Encode(
        xmlresponse{
            Message: "Hi there", 
            Name: req.URL.Query().Get("name")})
}

func main() {
    fmt.Println("Serving files from /tmp on port 8080. Call /testxml?name=someone")
    http.HandleFunc("/testxml", XmlRequestHandler)
    // Else serve from the file system temp directory
    http.Handle("/",  http.FileServer(http.Dir("/tmp")))
    err := http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil)
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal("ListenAndServe: ", err)
    }
}