https://github.com/sjkingo/python-parrot

parrot is a simple HTTP server that responds to any valid GET request with the file specified on the command line
https://github.com/sjkingo/python-parrot

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parrot is a simple HTTP server that responds to any valid GET request with the file specified on the command line

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/sjkingo/python-parrot
• Owner: sjkingo
• License: bsd-2-clause
• Created: 2015-09-24T00:48:17.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-09-24T00:58:48.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-13T13:31:31.105Z (12 days ago)
• Topics: http, http-server, python, python-3
• Language: Python
• Size: 129 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# python-parrot

[parrot](https://youtu.be/npjOSLCR2hE) is a simple HTTP server that responds to any valid GET

request with the file specified on the command line.

It is useful during testing (e.g. to mock out a server application),

or to do client testing. Both text and binary files are handlded correctly.

Its only dependency is the excellent [python-magic](https://github.com/ahupp/python-magic) library

for mime type guessing. It works on Python 3.

```

$ pip install python-parrot

```

## Usage

```

$ parrot port filename

```

The following arguments are required:

* `port`: Port to listen on

* `filename`: Filename of the data to send in response to all requests

## Sample

Start the parrot server:

```

$ echo 'This is a test' > test.txt

$ parrot 8000 test.txt

parrot/1.0.0 listening on 0.0.0.0:8000 with file test.txt (text/plain)

```

In another terminal (assuming `10.1.1.1` is a valid IP on the server):

```

$ echo 'GET /anything HTTP/1.0' | nc 10.1.1.1 8000

HTTP/1.0 200 OK

Server: parrot/1.0.0 Python/3.4.2

Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 00:27:56 GMT

Content-Type: text/plain

This is a test

```