Kamaelia.Protocol.HTTP.Handlers.Minimal

• component Minimal

• Minimal
  • Example Usage

Minimal

A simple HTTP request handler for HTTPServer. Minimal serves files within a given directory, guessing their MIME-type from their file extension.

Example Usage

See HTTPResourceGlue.py for how to use request handlers.

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Kamaelia.Protocol.HTTP.Handlers.Minimal.Minimal

class Minimal(Axon.Component.component)

A simple HTTP request handler for HTTPServer which serves files within a given directory, guessing their MIME-type from their file extension.

Arguments: -- request - the request dictionary object that spawned this component -- homedirectory - the path to prepend to paths requested -- indexfilename - if a directory is requested, this file is checked for inside it, and sent if found

Inboxes

• control : UNUSED
• _filecontrol : Signals from file reader
• _fileread : File data
• inbox : UNUSED

Outboxes

• _fileprompt : Get the file reader to do some reading
• outbox : Response dictionaries
• signal : UNUSED
• _filesignal : Shutdown the file reader

Methods defined here

__init__(self, request[, indexfilename][, homedirectory])

main(self)

Produce the appropriate response then terminate.