#!/usr/bin/env python

# Single purpose HTTP server

# - serves files specified as arguments in order of appearance

import os

import sys

import BaseHTTPServer

#from pprint import pprint

class Handler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):

    def do_POST(self):

        print self.rfile.read(int(self.headers.getheader('content-length')))

        response = self.dummy_response

        if not self.filelist:

            print 'No more files to serve - sending dummy response'

            sys.stdout.flush()

        else:

            response = self.filelist.pop()

        self.reply(response)

    def reply(self, response):

        try:

            #redirect stdout to client

            stdout = sys.stdout

            sys.stdout = self.wfile

            print response

            stdout.flush()

        finally:

            sys.stdout = stdout # restore

            pass

PORT = 12345

print "Serving at port", PORT

sys.stdout.flush()

filelist = []

for file in sys.argv[1:]:

    if os.path.isfile(file):

        print "Adding file %s" % file

        sys.stdout.flush()

        with open(file) as f:

            filelist.append(f.read())

filelist.reverse()

Handler.filelist = filelist

Handler.dummy_response = open("dummy", "r").read()

httpd = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(("", PORT), Handler)

httpd.serve_forever()