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Prototyping: Simplest HTTP server with URL routing (to use w/ Backbone.Router)?

We're working on a Backbone.js application and the fact that we can start a HTTP server by typing python -m SimpleHTTPServer is brilliant.

We'd like the ability to route any URL (e.g. localhost:8000/path/to/something) to our index.html so that we can test Backbone.Router with HTML5 pushState.

What is the most painless way to accomplish that? (For the purpose of quick prototyping)

Solution

  • Just use the built in python functionality in BaseHTTPServer

    import BaseHTTPServer

class Handler( BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler ):
    def do_GET( self ):
        self.send_response(200)
        self.send_header( 'Content-type', 'text/html' )
        self.end_headers()
        self.wfile.write( open('index.html').read() )

httpd = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer( ('127.0.0.1', 8000), Handler )
httpd.serve_forever()