I have encoding problems when serving a simple web page in python3, using BaseHTTPRequestHandler.
Here is a working example:
#!/usr/bin/python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*
from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
from os import curdir, sep, remove
import cgi
HTML_FILE_NAME = 'test.html'
PORT_NUMBER = 8080
# This class will handles any incoming request from the browser
class myHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
# Handler for the GET requests
def do_GET(self):
self.path = HTML_FILE_NAME
try:
with open(curdir + sep + self.path, 'r') as f:
self.send_response(200)
self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html')
self.end_headers()
self.wfile.write(bytes(f.read(), 'UTF-8'))
return
except IOError:
self.send_error(404, 'File Not Found: %s' % self.path)
try:
# Create a web server and define the handler to manage the incoming request
with open(HTML_FILE_NAME, 'w') as f:
f.write('<!DOCTYPE html><html><body> <p> My name is Jérôme </p> </body></html>')
print('Started httpserver on port %i.' % PORT_NUMBER)
#Wait forever for incoming http requests
HTTPServer(('', PORT_NUMBER), myHandler).serve_forever()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
print('Interrupted by the user - shutting down the web server.')
server.socket.close()
remove(HTML_FILE_NAME)
The expected result is to serve a web page displaying My name is Jérôme.
Instead, I have: My name is Jérôme
As you can see, the html page is correctly encoded, with self.wfile.write(bytes(f.read(), 'UTF-8')), so I think the problem comes from the web server.
How to tell the web server to serve the page in UTF-8?
No problem if I add:
<meta content="text/html;charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<meta content="utf-8" http-equiv="encoding">
in my html head.