A Http Application in Python - or an attempt to create a minimalistic web framework.
This is a work in progress pet project that implements:
- an http handler that responds to GET requests (running on python's BaseServer)
- a simple routing logic that the handler passes the request url to
- the routing logic maps the request to the related business logic
- the business logic just returns static html so far
Eventually there will be:
- image responses
- improved test infrastructure
- a simple templating engine to generate HTML dynamically
- responses to POST requests
- asynchronous http handling
- authentication handling
Start the http server on your local with
$ python happy.py
Then in your browser visit http://localhost:8080/.
By doing so, you are sending the first http request to your running server. The response will be:
Press the Get Started button and find a short documentation on how to create and use routes in HAppy.
A http server is a process that is running on your machine and does two things:
- Listen for incoming http requests on a specific TCP socket address (composed of an IP address and a port number)
- Handle the request and sends a response back to the client.
For now, the incoming requests are solely GET requests, the responses are HTML, CSS and image files.
You could also start a built-in Python http server without any coding:
$ python3 -m http.server 8080
but then you could not have a customised http handler.
$ venv/bin/pytest -vvv