Super simple python socket server and HTTP request class.

server.py

import socket, traceback

HOST = ''
PORT = 51235
CLRF = '\r\n'

class InvalidRequest(Exception):
	pass

class Request(object):
	"A simple http request object"
	
	def __init__(self, raw_request):
		self._raw_request = raw_request
		
		self._method, self._path, self._protocol, self._headers = self.parse_request()
	
	def parse_request(self):
		"Turn basic request headers in something we can use"
		temp = [i.strip() for i in self._raw_request.splitlines()]
		
		if -1 == temp[0].find('HTTP'):
			raise InvalidRequest('Incorrect Protocol')
		
		# Figure out our request method, path, and which version of HTTP we're using
		method, path, protocol = [i.strip() for i in temp[0].split()]
		
		# Create the headers, but only if we have a GET reqeust
		headers = {}
		if 'GET' == method:
			for k, v in [i.split(':', 1) for i in temp[1:-1]]:
				headers[k.strip()] = v.strip()
		else:
			raise InvalidRequest('Only accepts GET requests')
		
		return method, path, protocol, headers
	
	def __repr__(self):
		return repr({'method': self._method, 'path': self._path, 'protocol': self._protocol, 'headers': self._headers})
		
		

# the actual server starts here
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.bind((HOST, PORT))
s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
s.listen(5)

while True:
	try:
		clientsock, clientaddress = s.accept()
	except KeyboardInterrupt:
		raise
	except:
		traceback.print_exc()
	
	try:
		request = clientsock.recv(1024)
		request = Request(request)
		clientsock.send(repr(request))
	except(KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit):
		raise
	except InvalidRequest, e:
		clientsock.send('HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request' + CLRF)
		clientsock.send('Content-Type: text/html' + CLRF*2)
		clientsock.send('<h1>Invalid Request: %s</h1>' % e)
	except:
		traceback.print_exc()
	
	try:
		clientsock.close()
	except KeyboardInterrupt:
		raise
	except:
		traceback.print_exc()