question about python

Sat Sep 13 03:15:11 EDT 2008

I was working through a tutorial about how to write a server using
python (the url is bellow). I am sure that the server is working to
some degree because when the server is running localhost:8080 just
keeps trying to load until it times out. I would like to know how to
send information through the server to my browser?

I was working through this tutorial:
http://python.about.com/od/networkingwithpython/ss/PythonWebServer.htm

and my final code is like this:

import socket

host = ''
port = 8080

c = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)

c.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)

c.bind((host, port))

c.listen(1)

while 1:
    csock, caddr = c.accept()
    cfile = csock.makefile('rw', 0)

line = cfile.readline().strip()

cfile.write('HTTP/1.0 200 OK\n\n')
cfile.write('<html><head><title>Welcome %s!</title></head>' %
(str(caddr)))
cfile.write('<body><h1>Follow the link...</h1>')
cfile.write('All the server needs to do is ')
cfile.write('to deliver the text to the socket. ')
cfile.write('It delivers the HTML code for a link, ')
cfile.write('and the web browser converts it. <br><br><br><br>')
cfile.write('<font size="7"><center> <a href="http://python.about.com/
index.html">Click me!</a> </center></font>')
cfile.write('<br><br>The wording of your request was: "%s"' %(line))
cfile.write('</body></html>')

cfile.close()
csock.close()