Making a http server in Python

Question

Just made a http server handling only file uploading. Want to add a feature to the http server sharing the file on Get request by a http client.

I have no idea how to show the file to clients. So a client can see it using http://127.0.0.1/filename.avi

In summary

A http client is uploading a file to a http server.

A http client is watching the file through the http server

OneOfOne · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-23 23:52:46Z

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Python 2: SimpleHTTPServer.

python2 -m SimpleHTTPServer 80

Python 3: http.server.

python -m http.server 80

edited Jan 23, 2017 at 23:52

answered Dec 4, 2010 at 2:29

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Infinity Challenger Over a year ago

Should have told that I used HTTPServer and BaseHTTPRequest classes in my project. So want to keep them as it is and add the feature.

OneOfOne Over a year ago

If you already implemented an http server that supports POST, then it should be trivial to implement get, check SimpleHTTPServer's code. check : /usr/lib/python2.6/SimpleHTTPServer.py

martineno Over a year ago

@user518978 if you can upload a file you are almost there. Your server will need to keep track of the uploaded files somehow (presumably you are saving these files somewhere on the filesystem). You could implement a method that when the client requests the root ("GET /") you return a list of files. Then the client can request the particular file you want to stream to it.

Travel and code enthousiast · Accepted Answer · 2022-08-09 12:43:04Z

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for the local server with python I run

$ python3 -m http.server 8080

inside the folder that contains my index.html. Is there any way (maybe a specific flag) to proxy the requests which can't be resolved locally to a given url?

answered Aug 9, 2022 at 12:43

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Nigel · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-04 04:18:48Z

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You can look at Flask. It is very lightweight and probably does most of what you're looking for.

answered Dec 4, 2010 at 4:18

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CaseyJames22 · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-25 20:04:48Z

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new python would be python -m http.server [port number] in the command prompt

answered Oct 25, 2014 at 20:04

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