Serving binary content (images, etc) using BasteHTTPServer

[Diez B. Roggisch]

MarkCSU at gmail.com wrote:

> I'm writing a simple web server in python using the BaseHTTPServer
> library. I can serve text content (ie html pages) with ease, but im
> running into troubles when i try to serve images. The image gets
> corrupted in transit and when I manually download the image from the
> website and look at it using a hex editor it appears that the first 60
> (or first 3C  in hex if it makes a helps) characters are missing.
> 
> 
> My code looks like this:
> 
> def do_GET(s):
> 
> # code that determines that yes this is an image
> 
>                 s.send_response(200)
>                 s.send_header("Content-type", "image/jpeg")
>                 s.end_headers
> 
>                 fileObj = open("1.jpg","rb") # file is harcoded until
> i get images being served correctly
>                 image = fileObj.read()
>                 s.wfile.write(image)

Don't you miss a Content-Length header?

Diez