Serving a file through HTTP

[Jp Calderone]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 03:21:52PM +0100, Gerhard H?ring wrote:
> [snip]
>     def do_GET(self):
>         """Serve a GET request."""
>         self.send_header("Content-Type", "audio/mp3")
>         self.end_headers()
> 
>         my_mp3_file = open("Metallica - Nothing Else Matters.mp3", "rb")
> 
>         # Reading the entire file at once is probably not that great a
>         # strategy.
>         self.wfile.write(my_mp3_file.read())

  A cheap improvement on the above line is shutil.copyfileobj()

  Jp

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