server.py

"""
A simple HTTP Server. It admits port and ip as optional parameters
"""

import sys
import BaseHTTPServer
from SimpleHTTPServer import SimpleHTTPRequestHandler


HandlerClass = SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
ServerClass  = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer
Protocol     = "HTTP/1.0"


try:
    sys.argv[1]
    port = int(sys.argv[1])
except IndexError:
    port = 8000

try:
    sys.argv[2]
    ip = sys.argv[2]
except IndexError:
    ip = ''

server_address = (ip, port)

HandlerClass.protocol_version = Protocol
httpd = ServerClass(server_address, HandlerClass)

sa = httpd.socket.getsockname()
print "Serving HTTP on", sa[0], "port", sa[1], "..."
httpd.serve_forever()