simple-server.py

#!/usr/bin/python

from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler,HTTPServer
import thread
import time

PORT_NUMBER = 80

exitFlag = False

class myHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
    def do_GET(self):
        global exitFlag
        exitFlag = "exit" in self.path
        mimetype='text/html'
        self.send_response(200)
        self.send_header('Content-type',mimetype)
        self.end_headers()
        self.wfile.write("Hello!")
        return


httpServer = None
def start_server():
    global httpServer
    httpServer = HTTPServer(('', PORT_NUMBER), myHandler)
    try:
        httpServer.serve_forever()
    except: 
        pass

thread.start_new_thread(start_server, ())

if __name__ == "__main__":
    while not exitFlag:
        time.sleep(0.5)
    httpServer.server_close()