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Python HTTPSERVER

An HTTP server is a software process that listens for incoming HTTP requests on a specific TCP port and handles requests by responding with the appropriate content. It serves this content, such as HTML files, from its file system. To create a simple HTTP server, one imports Python's HTTP server and socket server modules, defines a port number, and instantiates a TCP server object bound to that port with a request handler, which serves files from the current directory. Running the server script launches the server process to listen for and respond to requests on the designated port.

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Python HTTPSERVER

An HTTP server is a software process that listens for incoming HTTP requests on a specific TCP port and handles requests by responding with the appropriate content. It serves this content, such as HTML files, from its file system. To create a simple HTTP server, one imports Python's HTTP server and socket server modules, defines a port number, and instantiates a TCP server object bound to that port with a request handler, which serves files from the current directory. Running the server script launches the server process to listen for and respond to requests on the designated port.

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HTTP SERVER

HTTP Server

• An HTTP web server is nothing but a process


that is running on your machine and does
exactly two things:
1- Listens for incoming http requests on a specific
TCP address (IP address and a port number )
2- Handles this request and sends a response back
to the user.
Example
• when you type www.yahoo.com on your browser,
your browser will create a network message called
an HTTP request.
• This Request will travel all the way to a Yahoo
computer that has a web server running on it. This
web server will intercept your request, and handle
it by responding back with the html of the Yahoo
home page.
• Finally your browser renders this html on the screen
and that’s what you see on your screen.
Example
HTTP SERVER
• Every interaction with the Yahoo home page after that (for
example, when you click on a link) initiates a new request and
response exactly like the first one.
• To reiterate, the machine that receives the http request has a
software process called a web server running on it. This web
server is responsible for intercepting these
requests and handling them appropriately.
how does the request reach that yahoo
machine
• Any http message (whether it is a request or response) needs
to know how to reach its destination.
• In order to reach its destination, each http message carries an
address called the destination TCP address.
• And each TCP address is composed of an IP address and
a port number.
• So where is that address when all you did was
type www.yahoo.com on your browser?
• This domain name is converted into an IP address through a
large distributed database called the DNS.
HTTP SERVER
• The IP address alone will allow the HTTP message to arrive at
the right machine, but you still need the port number in order
for the HTTP request to arrive exactly at the web server.
• In other words, the web server is a regular network
application that is listening on a specific port.
• And the http request must be addressed to that port.
• So where is the port number when you
type www.yahoo.com?
• By default, the port number is 80 for http and 443 for https,
so even though you haven’t explicitly specified the port
number, it is still there.
HTTP SERVER
• And if the web server is listening on a non-
default port number (neither 80 nor 443), you
must explicitly specify the port number like
this:
• Yahoo.com:443
Creating simple http server
• We want to create a simple http server that serves a static html
web page.
• Create a simple HTML file and save this file as index.html
• <html>
• <head>
• <title>Python is awesome!</title>
• </head>
• <body>
• <h1>FIRST SERVER </h1>
• <p>Congratulations! The HTTP Server is working!</p>
• </body>
• </html>
Create an HTTP web server
• The next step is to create a web server that will serve this html page.
Save the following script (server.py) in same directory where index.html
is stored because by default the SimpleHTTPRequestHandler will look for
a file named index.html in the current directory.
• import http.server
• import socketserver

• PORT = 8080
• Handler = http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler

• with socketserver.TCPServer(("", PORT), Handler) as httpd:


• print("serving at port", PORT)
• httpd.serve_forever()
HTTP SERVER
• http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler is: a simple
HTTP request handler that serves files from the
current directory and any of its subdirectories.
• socketserver.TCPServer class.
• An instance of TCPServer describes a server that uses
the TCP protocol to send and receive messages (http is
an application layer protocol on top of TCP).
• To instantiate a TCP Server, we need two things:
• 1- The TCP address (IP address and a port number)
• 2- The handler
HTTP SERVER
• The TCP address is passed as a tuple of (ip address, port
number)
• Passing an empty string as the ip address means that the
server will be listening on any network interface (all available
IP addresses).
• And since PORT stores the value of 8080, then the server will
be listening on incoming requests on that port.
• serve_forever is a method on the TCPServer instance that
starts the server and begins listening and responding to
incoming requests.
HTTP SERVER
• Start the web server by executing server.py
• By doing that, you now have an HTTP server
that is listening on any interface at port 8080
waiting for incoming http requests.
• Open your browser and type localhost:8080 in
the address bar.
OUTPUT

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