How to write a message in SimpleHTTPServer

Question

I'm relatively new to Python. I am trying to run a simple server using python. I successfully did this, but I want to have a message such as "Hello World" when I run the server from my browser. It posts my directory when I run the program and says "Directory listing for/" at the top. Is there a way to add more text on this page? How would I do this?

import sys
import BaseHTTPServer
from SimpleHTTPServer import SimpleHTTPRequestHandler


HandlerClass = SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
ServerClass  = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer
Protocol     = "HTTP/1.0"

if sys.argv[1:]:
port = int(sys.argv[1])
else:
    port = 8000
server_address = ('127.0.0.1', port)

HandlerClass.protocol_version = Protocol
httpd = ServerClass(server_address, HandlerClass)

sa = httpd.socket.getsockname()
print "Serving HTTP on", sa[0], "port", sa[1], "..."
httpd.serve_forever()

Answer 1

When you implement such a httpserver and browse it, the do_GET method of the SimpleHTTPRequestHandler is called. And by default it will searches the directory your script is in for index.html or index.htm. If there is no such file, the directory will be displayed.

So if you want to display contents rather than the directory. You should add a file index.html or index.htm in your directory. And writes the contents you want to display in the file.

For more please refer the doc.