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

Pass binary as a parameter to open(). This:

f = open(curdir + sep + self.path, 'rb')

Instead of this:

f = open(curdir + sep + self.path)

UNIX doesn't distinguish between binary and text, but windows does. But if the script executes on UNIX, the "b" will just be ignored so you're safe.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

If you want to share files in a folder of any type, then you can also try typing the command

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

This will start the server at port 8000 and you can browse the files (via directory listing)