A simple WebSockets server with no dependencies

websocketserver.py

import struct
import SocketServer
from base64 import b64encode
from hashlib import sha1
from mimetools import Message
from StringIO import StringIO

class WebSocketsHandler(SocketServer.StreamRequestHandler):
    magic = '258EAFA5-E914-47DA-95CA-C5AB0DC85B11'

    def setup(self):
        SocketServer.StreamRequestHandler.setup(self)
        print "connection established", self.client_address
        self.handshake_done = False

    def handle(self):
        while True:
            if not self.handshake_done:
                self.handshake()
            else:
                self.read_next_message()

    def read_next_message(self):
        length = ord(self.rfile.read(2)[1]) & 127
        if length == 126:
            length = struct.unpack(">H", self.rfile.read(2))[0]
        elif length == 127:
            length = struct.unpack(">Q", self.rfile.read(8))[0]
        masks = [ord(byte) for byte in self.rfile.read(4)]
        decoded = ""
        for char in self.rfile.read(length):
            decoded += chr(ord(char) ^ masks[len(decoded) % 4])
        self.on_message(decoded)

    def send_message(self, message):
        self.request.send(chr(129))
        length = len(message)
        if length <= 125:
            self.request.send(chr(length))
        elif length >= 126 and length <= 65535:
            self.request.send(126)
            self.request.send(struct.pack(">H", length))
        else:
            self.request.send(127)
            self.request.send(struct.pack(">Q", length))
        self.request.send(message)

    def handshake(self):
        data = self.request.recv(1024).strip()
        headers = Message(StringIO(data.split('\r\n', 1)[1]))
        if headers.get("Upgrade", None) != "websocket":
            return
        print 'Handshaking...'
        key = headers['Sec-WebSocket-Key']
        digest = b64encode(sha1(key + self.magic).hexdigest().decode('hex'))
        response = 'HTTP/1.1 101 Switching Protocols\r\n'
        response += 'Upgrade: websocket\r\n'
        response += 'Connection: Upgrade\r\n'
        response += 'Sec-WebSocket-Accept: %s\r\n\r\n' % digest
        self.handshake_done = self.request.send(response)

    def on_message(self, message):
        print messsage

if __name__ == "__main__":
    server = SocketServer.TCPServer(
        ("localhost", 9999), WebSocketsHandler)
    server.serve_forever()

I am facing a weird problem. Only one client can be connected to this server. Am I missing something really basic ?

To handle multiple client support:

At the beginning of the websocketserver-py file: I added:
import sys ###
import threading ###
from SocketServer import ThreadingMixIn ###

At the end of the websocketserver-py file: I added a class ThreadedWebSocketServer and adapted the 'if name == "main" ' part.

class ThreadedWebSocketServer(SocketServer.ThreadingMixIn, SocketServer.TCPServer):
"""Handle requests in a separate thread."""
# Ctrl-C will cleanly kill all spawned threads
daemon_threads = True
# much faster rebinding
allow_reuse_address = True

def __init__(self, server_address, RequestHandlerClass):
    SocketServer.TCPServer.__init__(self, server_address, RequestHandlerClass)

if name == "main":
##server = SocketServer.TCPServer(
## ("127.0.0.1", 8088), WebSocketsHandler)
server = ThreadedWebSocketServer(("127.0.0.1", 8088), WebSocketsHandler) ###
# terminate with Ctrl-C
try:
server.serve_forever()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
print ('========================================')
print ('^C received, shutting down server')
print ('========================================')
server.socket.close()
sys.exit(0)