SimpleHTTPServer adding multiple handlers

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I am not a Python programmer, but the I have used SimpleHTTPServer as it is so simple to start a web server serving from one folder.

Now I need to serve a json file. I have the following python:

update: I should mention that the file should be served from a different route. That is that I need both the "localhost" folder serving an index.html and a folder serving the json file.

import BaseHTTPServer, SimpleHTTPServer
import ssl

httpd = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(('localhost', 4443), SimpleHTTPServer.update: I should mention that the )
httpd.socket = ssl.wrap_socket (httpd.socket, certfile='Certificates.pem', server_side=True)
httpd.serve_forever()

I know that I need to add one more handler serving the file, but how can you have multiple handlers.

The requirement for serving the file is:
1. It must be sent with the header ‘application/pkcs7-mime’
2. It must return a 200 http code

The question is how to server multiple handlers. Thanks in advance. Regards

I recommend using Flask, it's probably easier to use.

Alex Hall
– Alex Hall

2016-05-11 12:42:33 +00:00
Commented May 11, 2016 at 12:42 — Alex Hall
– Alex Hall, Commented May 11, 2016 at 12:42

mhawke · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-11 12:56:07Z

You don't need multiple handlers. SimpleHTTPRequestHandler uses the the file's extension to guess an appropriate mime type for the Content-type header.

In this case extension .p7m maps to application/pkcs7-mime

So if you name your json files with extension .p7m, the desired mime type will be used.

If that is not feasible, then you can modify SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.extensions_map and add your own extension to map to application/pkcs7-mime:

import BaseHTTPServer, SimpleHTTPServer
import ssl

SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.extensions_map['.my_ext'] = 'application/pkcs7-mime'
httpd = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(('localhost', 4443), SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler)
httpd.socket = ssl.wrap_socket (httpd.socket, certfile='Certificates.pem', server_side=True)
httpd.serve_forever()

Now files with extension .my_ext will be served with the required mime type.

If that doesn't work for you, then you can subclass SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler and override its guess_type() method to add some custom way to determine the mime type, possibly by inspecting the file contents.

Vasiliy Faronov · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-11 14:11:10Z

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You can use your operating system’s symlink (symbolic link) feature to link both the index.html and the JSON file into one directory.

On a Unix system, it goes like this:

$ ln -s /path/to/index.html

$ ln -s /another/path/to/file.json

$ ls
file.json  index.html

$ python /your/script.py

answered May 11, 2016 at 14:11

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