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Static HTTP server in Python that saves all POST requests as files in the current directory
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static-http-receiver.py
import os
from http.server import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler, SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
class CustomHTTPRequestHandler(SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
def do_POST(self):
filename = os.path.basename(self.path)
file_length = int(self.headers['Content-Length'])
with open(filename, 'wb') as output_file:
output_file.write(self.rfile.read(file_length))
self.send_response(201, 'Created')
self.end_headers()
reply_body = 'Saved "{}"\n'.format(filename)
self.wfile.write(reply_body.encode('utf-8'))
httpd = HTTPServer(('0.0.0.0', 8000), CustomHTTPRequestHandler)
httpd.serve_forever()
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sefgit commented Dec 25, 2023

import http.server
import socketserver
from urllib.parse import urlparse
from urllib.parse import parse_qs

class MyHttpRequestHandler(http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
def do_GET(self):
# Sending an '200 OK' response
self.send_response(200)

    # Setting the header
    self.send_header("Content-type", "text/html")

    # Whenever using 'send_header', you also have to call 'end_headers'
    self.end_headers()

    # Extract query param
    name = 'World'
    query_components = parse_qs(urlparse(self.path).query)
    if 'name' in query_components:
        name = query_components["name"][0]

    # Some custom HTML code, possibly generated by another function
    html = f"<html><head></head><body><h1>Hello {name}!</h1></body></html>"

    # Writing the HTML contents with UTF-8
    self.wfile.write(bytes(html, "utf8"))

    return

Create an object of the above class

handler_object = MyHttpRequestHandler

PORT = 8000
my_server = socketserver.TCPServer(("", PORT), handler_object)

Star the server

my_server.serve_forever()

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sefgit commented Dec 25, 2023

from http.server import HTTPServer, SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
import ssl

httpd = HTTPServer(('localhost', 4443), SimpleHTTPRequestHandler)

httpd.socket = ssl.wrap_socket(httpd.socket,
keyfile="/path/to/key.pem",
certfile='/path/to/cert.pem',
server_side=True)

httpd.serve_forever()

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sefgit commented Dec 25, 2023

https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert

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sefgit commented Dec 25, 2023

https://mkcert.org/

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