A python3 script to provide a simple webserver supporting both IPv6 and IPv4
The python module SimpleHTTPServer supports IPv4 out of the box with the simple command:
python -m SimpleHTTPServer
However it does not support IPv6. There is no one line equivalent to support IPv6, so a small script is required.
This is not a production web server, but can easily be used to illustrate how to create a small web sever with virtual paths, which could be expanded to a full RESTful interface (Representational state transfer) or a CGI interface (Common Gateway Interface). Or it is useful as is when one wants to transfer a file from machine A to machine B.
The Script includes a virtual path of /ip which when requested will return to the requester the IP address of the client.
This code was forked from a gist published on github four years ago.
Python is a wonderful programming language, and getting only better with version 3. There are libraries for most needs, including one which serves up the web.
Access log entries are logged to standard out
$ ./ipv6-httpd.py
Listening on port:8080
Press ^C to quit
2001:470:ebbd:0:4d18:71cd:b814:9508 - - [09/Jul/2017 11:49:41] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 -
^CCaught SIGINT, dying
Copy ipv6-htttpd.py into your directory, and run. Or run from any directory, the script will serve up the current working directory (CWD), including a simple index of the directory.
Script requires python3 (tested with v 3.4.3)
The script is not a production webserver. It does not support access lists, PHP, CGI, multi-threading, etc. If you need such a webserver, I recommend apache as it has been tried and tested over a period of decades.
All code by Craig Miller cvmiller at gmail dot com. But ideas, and ports to other languages are welcome.
This project is open source, under the GPLv2 license (see LICENSE)