Python stand-alone HTTP server with script running support?

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I'm writing an application that uses HTML pages as it's user interface - the user runs it on his computer and opens http://localhost:8080. After writing about a thousand lines of code implementing my own vision of MVC model, I noticed I'm pretty much trying to reinvent the wheel - RequestHandler import classes that implement do_POST and do_GET for a specified case, session handling... I've pretty much realized I'm doing it wrong.

I'd prefer to stick to the model that my Python script runs a HTTP server (most prefferably one from the standard library), because I like this architecture. The question is - is there some HTTPServer-like class that would give me an interface similar to CGI (parsing the GET URI, automatically loading the views and models) without giving me a lot of overhead? I'd prefer it to be as small and simple as possible, so if there's no standard library based solution, let it at least be pure Python.

Search for "Python micro web framework" - Flask and Bottle are good candidates — Jon Clements
– Jon Clements, Commented Dec 16, 2012 at 13:51

danodonovan · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-16 15:09:31Z

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There is a CGI capable HTTP server already baked into python - that's probably the simplest place to start.

answered Dec 16, 2012 at 15:09

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d33tah Over a year ago

Doesn't it have problems with redirects?

danodonovan Over a year ago

Yes, but you should be able to handle that elegantly; for instance checking for a redirect (or exception) and redirecting to SimpleHTTPServer

d33tah Over a year ago

Elegantly? That feels rather hacky.

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