On 5/21/2019 2:00 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 10:43 AM Glenn Linderman <v+pyt...@g.nevcal.com> wrote:
After maintaining my own version of http.server to fix or workaround some of
its deficiencies for some years, I discovered bottle.py. It has far more
capability, is far better documented, and is just as quick to deploy. While I
haven't yet converted all past projects to use bottle.py, it will likely happen
in time, unless something even simpler to use is discovered, although I can
hardly imagine that happening.
bottle.py uses http.server for its local development mode (the one you
see in their quickstart example at the top of their README). Same with
flask, django, and probably a bunch of other frameworks. It's *very*
widely used.
-n
The source for bottle.py version 0.13-dev has an import for http.client,
but not http.server. I hadn't tracked down every indirect dependency in
the bottle.py source code, but it seems that if one uses the "default
server" for bottle, that it is "wsgiref", imported from
wsgiref.simple_server, and that in turn does import
BaseHTTPRequestHandler and HTTPServer from http.server.
It is the higher-level code in http.server that has significant
deficiencies that have caused me problems over the years... a
"SimpleHTTPRequestHandler" that is so simple it doesn't do POST, PUT or
PASTE, a "CGIHTTPRequestHandler" that only implements part of the CGI
protocol, only CGI support in POST, no support for PUT or PASTE, and no
support for https, and not much bug fix activity in those areas.
Maybe http.server should be split into the "basic parts" (used by
bottle.py, and other frameworks), and the "higher-level parts", which
could then be discarded by this PEP! At this point, though, I'd have to
agree that the whole should not be discarded. Thanks for making me dig
deeper.
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