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dhttp
A simple, dynamic, decorator-based HTTP server inspired by Node.js's Express. Supports trio, TLS and WebSockets.
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dhttp
dhttp, which is pretty short for decorable HTTP, is a
simple, yet dynamic, HTTP server written for Python 3.
It is inspired by Node.js's Express library.
"Decorable" is a reference to how extensively decorators are used throughout this project. They are very useful, and are one of the nicest syntaxes for a callback system like this.
Example code
import dhttp
import random
app = dhttp.DHTTPServer(int(sys.argv[1]) if len(sys.argv) > 1 else 8005)
app.alias('/index', '/')
app.alias('/index.htm', '/')
app.alias('/index.html', '/')
test_index = """<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>My first DHTTP server</title>
</head>
<body>
<p><h2>Congratulations!</h2></p>
<hr>
<p><b>dhttp {version}</b> is now running on your machine.</p>
<p>How about <i>{party}</i> to comemorate? :)</p>
</body>
</html>"""
party_stuff = [
'a bottle of wine', 'a bottle of champagne', 'a big party',
'THE party, just', 'THE party', 'lots of cats', 'partyception',
'balloons and cakes', 'a big-endian cake', 'lots of confetti',
'the Confetti-o-Tron 2000', 'HTTP juice', 'Spicy Bytes',
'antimatter', 'cats writing code', 'a smile breaking the 4th wall'
]
@app.get('/')
def serve_index(req, res):
res.end(test_index.format(
party = random.choice(party_stuff),
version = DHTTP_VERSION
))
@app.on_log
def print_log(log):
if log.request.get_header('X-Forwarded-For') is not None:
log.ip = log.request.get_header('X-Forwarded-For')
print(log, ' (forwarded)')
else:
print(log)
@app.serve_forever
def on_serve():
print(f" == Listening on port: {app.port} ==")
FAQs
A simple, dynamic, decorator-based HTTP server inspired by Node.js's Express. Supports trio, TLS and WebSockets.
We found that dhttp demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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