Single Line Python Webserver

Question

I seem to remember seeing a single line implementation of a webserver a couple of years ago. I'm aware of SimpleHTTPServer and it's like, and that's not it - I think this was using Socket and select().

I thought it was on the Python Tutor mailing list, but an archive search hasn't revealed anything, nor has a google search. I was wondering if anyone here might have further leads I could look up - or ideally a link to the original.

Although I guess it's entirely possible that the original author has taken it down out of shame...

Answer 1

I'm pretty sure you can't have a webserver using sockets and select() on one line of code. Not even using semicolons, you'd have to have some loops and control structures.

Are you sure this isn't what you are looking for?

Python 3 version:

$ python -m http.server 8000 Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 (http://0.0.0.0:8000/) ... 

Python 2 version: python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

Answer 2

Was it perchance perl? favourite one liners

perl -MIO::All -e 'io(":8080")->fork->accept->(sub { $_[0] < io(-x $1 ? "./$1 |" : $1) if /^GET \/(.*) / })'