Serving a file through HTTP

[Gumuz]

Ah, I was just about to write another post to tell you that it still doesn't
work, but then I saw it.... stupid me; you're using simplehttpserver and I
was using basehttpserver :)

thanks a lot!

"Gerhard Häring" <gh at ghaering.de> wrote in message
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> gumuz at looze.net wrote:
> > Ah, I'm sorry, I left something unclear in my message I think.
> >
> > I mean, serving up binary files like music(mp3). It sounds very simple,
> > but I have no clue how to stream such a file to the client. [...]
>
> You're probably just thinking too complicated. From SimpleHTTPServer:
>
>      def do_GET(self):
>          """Serve a GET request."""
>          f = self.send_head()
>          if f:
>              self.copyfile(f, self.wfile)
>              f.close()
>
> Let's adapt this slightly (untested):
>
>      def do_GET(self):
>          """Serve a GET request."""
>          self.send_header("Content-Type", "audio/mp3")
>          self.end_headers()
>
>          my_mp3_file = open("Metallica - Nothing Else Matters.mp3", "rb")
>
>          # Reading the entire file at once is probably not that great a
>          # strategy.
>          self.wfile.write(my_mp3_file.read())
>
>          my_mp3_file.close()
>
> This would probably quite a boring MP3 server, always serving the same
> file ;-)
>
> -- Gerhard
>
>