Sending http headers with python

Question

I\'ve set up a little script that should feed a client with html.

import socket

sock = socket.socket()
sock.bind((\'\', 8080))
sock.listen(5)
client, adress = s         


        

Answer 1

The response header should include a response code indicating success. Before the Content-Type line, add:

client.send('HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n')

Also, to make the test more visible, put some content in the page:

client.send('
Hello World')

After the response is sent, close the connection with:

client.close()

and

sock.close()

As the other posters have noted, terminate each line with \r\n instead of \n.

Will those additions, I was able to run successful test. In the browser, I entered localhost:8080.

Here's all the code:

import socket

sock = socket.socket()
sock.bind(('', 8080))
sock.listen(5)
client, adress = sock.accept()

print "Incoming:", adress
print client.recv(1024)
print

client.send('HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n')
client.send("Content-Type: text/html\r\n\r\n")
client.send('
Hello World')
client.close()

print "Answering ..."
print "Finished."

sock.close()