Foundations of Python Network Programming, Third Edition

CHAPTER 10

HTTP Servers

How can a Python program run as a server responding to HTTP requests? In Chapter 7, you learned several basic socket and concurrency patterns for writing a TCP-based network server. With HTTP, it is unlikely that you will ever need to write anything that low-level because the protocol’s popularity has resulted in off-the-shelf solutions for all of the major server patterns that you might need.

While this chapter will focus on third-party tools, the Standard Library does have an HTTP server implementation built in. It can even be invoked from the command line.

$ python3 -m http.serverServing HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ... ...