pythonSprinklerServer.py

from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
import SocketServer

class S(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
    def _set_headers(self):
        self.send_response(200)
        self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html')
        self.end_headers()

    def do_GET(self):
        self._set_headers()
        self.wfile.write("GET REQUEST")

    def do_HEAD(self):
        self._set_headers()
        
    def do_POST(self):
        # Doesn't do anything with posted data
        self._set_headers()
        print "POST"
        request = self.rfile.read(int(self.headers.getheader('content-length')))
        handleRequest(request)
        self.wfile.write("POST REQUEST\n")
        
def run(server_class=HTTPServer, handler_class=S, port=8123):
    server_address = ('', port)
    httpd = server_class(server_address, handler_class)
    print 'Starting httpd...'
    httpd.serve_forever()

def handleRequest(request):
	print "Got request - \n" + request
	#Implement function here

if __name__ == "__main__":
    from sys import argv

    if len(argv) == 2:
        run(port=int(argv[1]))
    else:
        run()