Poor Http Server

Why choose Poor Http

• Stand alone server application.
• It's depends only on base Python library, there is no need to other special frameworks or libraries.
• Base API for writing python web applications allows running applications under self users.
• Python modules are still stores in memory, so new request are serves very quickly. [Single and Threading mode]
  
• Server could runs in threading and forking mode, so more request could be serves in same time.
• Easy configuration by ini file, which could be use to configuration of web application.
• Error and Access Log
• Standard error handlers: 500 Internal Server Error, 400 Not Found, 302 Found (redirect), etc.
• API variability
• Base file transport (css, txt, png files)

Server installation

Download - changelog

• poorhttp-20100729.tar.bz2 - apache compatibility version
• poorpublisher-20100729.tar.bz2 - apache publisher
• poortest-20100729.tar.bz2 - test aplication

• poorhttp-20091126.tar.bz2 - cookies encryption, logging and other bug fixes
• poorhttp-20091124.tar.bz2 - first public version

$ tar xjf poorhttp-20091124.tar.bz2
$ mkdir -p /srv/run /srv/log /srv/app /srv/www
$ mv poorhttp /srv/
$ mv etc /srv/
$ mv init.d/poorhttp /etc/init.d/
$ /etc/init.d/poorhttp start

Hello world application

# dispatch_table.py    
import http
import main

def setreq(req):
    pass

errors = {
    http.HTTP_NOT_FOUND: main.not_found,
}

handlers = {
    # uri: (method, function )
    '/':    (http.METHOD_GET, main.hello),
    '/bye': (http.METHOD_GET, main.bye),    
} 

# main.py

import http

def hello(req):
    req.content_type = "text/html"
    req.write("<b>Hello world</b>")
    return http.DONE

def bye(req):
    req.content_type = "text/plain"
    content = "Bye bye"
    raise http.SERVER_RETURN http.OK

def not_found(req):
    req.content_type = "text/html"
    req.status = http.HTTP_NOT_FOUND
    req.write("<b>Page %s not found</b>" % req.uri)
    return http.DONE

Mini documentation

• Session - data is store at client side in browser, and it is send with each cookie.
• MCSession - data is stored in Memcache Server, which must be configured.
• FileSession - data is stored at server side in file like in PHP. [This class is not implement yet!]

BSD Licence

• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
• Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
• Neither the name of the author nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.