Python 3.x BaseHTTPServer or http.server

Question

Your program in python 3.xx does work right out of the box – except for one minor problem. The issue is not in your code but the place where you are writing these lines:

self.wfile.write("Hello World !")

You are trying to write “string” in there, but bytes should go there. So you need to convert your string to bytes.

Here, see my code, which is almost same as you and works perfectly. Its written in python 3.4

from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
import time

hostName = "localhost"
hostPort = 9000

class MyServer(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
    def do_GET(self):
        self.send_response(200)
        self.send_header("Content-type", "text/html")
        self.end_headers()
        self.wfile.write(bytes("<html><head><title>Title goes here.</title></head>", "utf-8"))
        self.wfile.write(bytes("<body><p>This is a test.</p>", "utf-8"))
        self.wfile.write(bytes("<p>You accessed path: %s</p>" % self.path, "utf-8"))
        self.wfile.write(bytes("</body></html>", "utf-8"))

myServer = HTTPServer((hostName, hostPort), MyServer)
print(time.asctime(), "Server Starts - %s:%s" % (hostName, hostPort))

try:
    myServer.serve_forever()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    pass

myServer.server_close()
print(time.asctime(), "Server Stops - %s:%s" % (hostName, hostPort))

Please notice the way I convert them from string to bytes using the “UTF-8” encoding. Once you do this change in your program, your program should work fine.

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