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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter
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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter

by Alan D. Moore
May 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
452 pages
11h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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Simulating a slow server

Testing this code with our lightning-fast local web server won't show us whether the threading module actually works, so we need to sabotage our test server to make it simulate a slow connection.

Import sleep() into the sample_http_server.py script, then edit the TestHandler methods:

    def do_POST(self, *args, **kwargs):
        print('POST request received')
        self._print_request_data()
        sleep(2)
        self._send_200()

    def do_PUT(self, *args, **kwargs):
        print("PUT request received")
        self._print_request_data()
        sleep(10)
        self._send_200()

We're adding a 2 second delay to the POST response and a 10 second delay to PUT. This should adequately demonstrate the effect of a slow server.

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