Integrating SimpleHTTPServer into asyncore

[Rick Lee]

This is a slightly different question about Medusa.  Is there a way to
dynamically add/remove server IP addresses to/from Medusa as it is running?

- Rick Lee
  rwklee at home.com

Ng Pheng Siong wrote:

> According to Erik Max Francis  <max at alcyone.com>:
> > Is there a standard way to integrate SimpleHTTPServer (and related
> > classes) into the asyncore poll loop, or is it just the rather obvious
> > process of creating a dispatcher that containers a SimpleHTTPServer and
> > delegates all the relevant asyncore methods to SimpleHTTPServer?
>
> Just use Medusa's http_server. Medusa does HTTP/1.1 with persistent
> connections; SimpleHTTPServer (really BaseHTTPRequestHandler) does
> HTTP/1.0 only.
>
> Some refactoring of Medusa and/or BaseHTTPRequestHandler to simplify
> writing HTTP method (GET, POST, etc.) handlers that are portable to both
> would be nice; e.g., send_header(), end_headers() versus Medusa's
> http_response object.
>
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