How to serve any file type with Python's BaseHTTPRequestHandler

Question

Consider the following example:

import string,cgi,time
from os import curdir, sep
from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer

class MyHandler(         


        

Answer 1

Your line would work just fine. The problem would be setting the Content-type appropriately. You'd want to set it to application/zip instead of text/html.