Difference: BasicWEBServer (2 vs. 3)

Revision 32022-11-12 - UliRaich

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 Writing a WEB server from scratch
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+We do not want to re-invent the wheel and we will use a WEB server already prepared for us by professional programmers but it is nevertheless interesting to implement a very simplistic WEB server ourselves simply to understand the basic principles.
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+We do not want to re-invent the wheel, and we will use a WEB server framework already prepared for us by professional programmers. It is nevertheless interesting to implement a very primitive WEB server ourselves, simply to understand the basic principles.
  The Hello World WEB Server
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+Let's start simple and produce a WEB server that just sends "Hello World!" to the browser when called. You may add some HTML text if desired. In the first version we will write a TCP server creating a stream socket and binding to port 80.
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+Let's start simple and produce a WEB server that just sends "Hello World!" to the browser when called. You may add some HTML text if desired. In the first version we will write a TCP server creating a stream socket and binding to port 80.
 s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM) 
s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1) 
try:
 while True: 
    conn,addr=s.accept()     print("GOT a connection from %s" % str(addr))
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+Finally it reads an http request from the connection and answers with its Hello World page:
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+Finally, it reads an HTTP request from the connection and answers with its Hello World page:
 request=conn.recv(1024)
print("Content %s" % str(request))
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+request=str(request) response=html 
conn.send(response) conn.close()
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+request=str(request) 
response=html 
conn.send(response) 
conn.close()
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+html is the http string to be sent, e.g.
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+HTML is the HTTP string to be sent, e.g.
 html = """ <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
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