How do I write a python HTTP server to listen on multiple ports?

Question

I\'m writing a small web server in Python, using BaseHTTPServer and a custom subclass of BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler. Is it possible to make this listen on more th

Answer 1

Not easily. You could have two ThreadingHTTPServer instances, write your own serve_forever() function (don't worry it's not a complicated function).

The existing function:

def serve_forever(self, poll_interval=0.5):
    """Handle one request at a time until shutdown.

    Polls for shutdown every poll_interval seconds. Ignores
    self.timeout. If you need to do periodic tasks, do them in
    another thread.
    """
    self.__serving = True
    self.__is_shut_down.clear()
    while self.__serving:
        # XXX: Consider using another file descriptor or
        # connecting to the socket to wake this up instead of
        # polling. Polling reduces our responsiveness to a
        # shutdown request and wastes cpu at all other times.
        r, w, e = select.select([self], [], [], poll_interval)
        if r:
            self._handle_request_noblock()
    self.__is_shut_down.set()

So our replacement would be something like:

def serve_forever(server1,server2):
    while True:
        r,w,e = select.select([server1,server2],[],[],0)
        if server1 in r:
            server1.handle_request()
        if server2 in r:
            server2.handle_request()