Serving HTTP

Interacting through HTTP is one of the most frequent means of communication between distributed applications or even totally separated software and it's also the foundation of all existing web applications and web-based tools.

While Python has tens of great web frameworks that can satisfy most different needs, the standard library itself has all the foundations that you might need to implement a basic web application.

How to do it...

Python has a convenient protocol named WSGI to implement HTTP-based applications. While for more advanced needs, a web framework might be required; for very simple needs, the wsgiref implementation built into Python itself can meet our needs:

import re
import inspect
from wsgiref...