Multithreaded web server in python

In python3, you can use the code below (https or http):

from http.server import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler
from socketserver import ThreadingMixIn
import threading

USE_HTTPS = True

class Handler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):

    def do_GET(self):
        self.send_response(200)
        self.end_headers()
        self.wfile.write(b'Hello world\t' + threading.currentThread().getName().encode() + b'\t' + str(threading.active_count()).encode() + b'\n')


class ThreadingSimpleServer(ThreadingMixIn, HTTPServer):
    pass

def run():
    server = ThreadingSimpleServer(('0.0.0.0', 4444), Handler)
    if USE_HTTPS:
        import ssl
        server.socket = ssl.wrap_socket(server.socket, keyfile='./key.pem', certfile='./cert.pem', server_side=True)
    server.serve_forever()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    run()

You will figure out this code will create a new thread to deal with every request.

Command below to generate self-sign certificate:

openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 -nodes -out cert.pem -keyout key.pem -days 365

If you are using Flask, this blog is great.

Check this post from Doug Hellmann's blog.

from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler
from SocketServer import ThreadingMixIn
import threading

class Handler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):

    def do_GET(self):
        self.send_response(200)
        self.end_headers()
        message =  threading.currentThread().getName()
        self.wfile.write(message)
        self.wfile.write('\n')
        return

class ThreadedHTTPServer(ThreadingMixIn, HTTPServer):
    """Handle requests in a separate thread."""

if __name__ == '__main__':
    server = ThreadedHTTPServer(('localhost', 8080), Handler)
    print 'Starting server, use <Ctrl-C> to stop'
    server.serve_forever()

I have developed a PIP Utility called ComplexHTTPServer that is a multi-threaded version of SimpleHTTPServer.

To install it, all you need to do is:

pip install ComplexHTTPServer

Using it is as simple as:

python -m ComplexHTTPServer [PORT]

(By default, the port is 8000.)