python on-demand http server

Question

I am creating auto tests for application (with python, that i am not so familiar with).

Simplified logic:

1. Start application
2. Start my service
3. Send request for that application to perform task
4. Application send to my service http request with some info

I totally have no idea what to use. After small research i found tornado, but it looks like overkill lib for my task.

Can someone recommend that kind of lib for python (with official documentation)

Answer 1

Python has a web server built-in. Maybe this is all what you need.

On the Command Line,

• Change to the directory where your interesting files are.
• run:

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8808 > /tmp/simple-web-server.log 2>&1 &

• Send your requests to http://localhost:8808 or http://123.45.67.89:8808

(whatever your IP is. Maybe you prefer to use the hostname. YMMV.)

You can use any other port number rather than 8808, but avoid numbers < 1024 because they are "privileged ports".

If you have only python3, run

python3 -m http.server 8808 --bind 127.0.0.1 > /tmp/simple-web-server.log 2>&1 &

and open your browser here: http://localhost:8808