A concocted bandwidth test using Python

band_test_server.py

#!/usr/bin/python
from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
from io import BytesIO
server = None
PORT_NUMBER = 8080
SERVER_IP = "0.0.0.0"

#This class will handles any incoming request from
#the browser
class myHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):

    #Handler for the GET requests
    def do_GET(self):
        self.send_response(200)
        self.send_header('Content-type','text/html')
        self.end_headers()
        # Send the html message
        f = b"0"*1024*10
        try:
            while True:
                self.wfile.write(f)
        except (BrokenPipeError, ConnectionResetError) as e:
            print(e)

try:
    #Create a web server and define the handler to manage the
    #incoming request
    server = HTTPServer((SERVER_IP, PORT_NUMBER), myHandler)
    print(f'Started httpserver on port {SERVER_IP}:{PORT_NUMBER}')
    #Wait forever for incoming htto requests
    server.serve_forever()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    print('^C received, shutting down the web server')
    server.socket.close()

# Testing Client
# wget -O /dev/null --recursive=off http://<hostname>/