Daemonizing python's BaseHTTPServer

Question

I am working on a daemon where I need to embed a HTTP server. I am attempting to do it with BaseHTTPServer, which when I run it in the foreground, it works fine, but when I tr

Answer 1

A simple solution that worked for me was to override the BaseHTTPRequestHandler method log_message(), so we prevent any kind of writing in stdout and avoid problems when demonizing.

class CustomRequestHandler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):

    def log_message(self, format, *args):
            pass

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rest of custom class code
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