Question

I would like to run a script that will create a simple HTTP server and run a function for each request.

I am using Python to test an API that should give me a callback.
For now, I am using http://requestb.in/ to test the callback, but I would like to test it directly in my python script.

Is it possible to run a callback server bind on localhost:6548 and test something base on a request?

Thank you for your help.

Answer 1

You could use wsgiref to host a simple WSGI web application. Example:

from wsgiref.simple_server import make_server
import datetime

def application(environ, start_response):
    start_response('200 OK', [('Content-type', 'text/plain')])
    retval = [
            str(environ),
            "\n",
            "Hello world!\n",
            str(datetime.datetime.now())
            ]
    return retval

make_server('localhost', 6548, application).serve_forever()

This code creates a Python WSGI web application and serves that app on http://localhost:6548.