threaded server in python

threaded_server.py

'''
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Simple Python HTTP Server
'''

#import socket module
import socket
import threading

#Factor out common page serving logic to function
def serve(conn_socket, page):
    try:
        f = open(page)
        status_code = '200 OK'
    except IOError:
        f = open('404.html')
        status_code = '404'
    finally:
        with f:
            content = f.read()
            headers = 'HTTP/1.1 %s\r\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\nContent-Length: %d\r\n\r\n' % (status_code, len(content))
            #Send headers's 
            conn_socket.send(headers)
            for char in content:
                conn_socket.send(char)
        conn_socket.close()

def get_connection(server_socket):
    conn_socket, addr = server_socket.accept()
    msg = conn_socket.recv(1024)
    if msg is None:
        return None
    return conn_socket, msg.split()[1][1:]


serverSocket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
port = 9000
#Prepare a server socket
serverSocket.bind(('', port))
serverSocket.listen(1)

while True:
    #Establish the connection
    print 'Ready to serve...'
    #Get the connection socket and filename
    args = get_connection(serverSocket)
    #No request sent. Stop server from crashing upon recv() timeout
    if args is None:
        continue
    #Spawn a new thread to handle request. New connection object will be created at next iteration.
    threading.Thread(target=serve, args=args).start()