BaseHttpServer

[Paul]

On Feb 15, 8:46 pm, Steve Holden <st... at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> Paul wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I currently have a webserver using BaseHttpServe that serves images
> > like this:
> > if self.path.endswith(".jpg"):
> >                 print(curdir + sep + self.path)
> >                 f = open(curdir + sep + self.path,"b")
> >                 self.send_response(200)
> >                 self.send_header('Content-type',   'image/jpg')
> >                 self.end_headers()
> >                 self.wfile.write(f.read())
> >                 f.close()
> >                 return
> > Whilst it works, it does take quite a while to load (approx 10secs for
> > a 4mb file even though its over the local connection) - does anyone
> > have any hints/tips for speeding it up?
>
> You could consider reading the file in smaller blocks and writing the
> output in a loop. That way the next block of the file can be read in
> while the network buffers are emptying.
>
> Just keep reading data and writing it until the number of data bytes you
> wrote is fewer than the number you tried to read.
>
> regards
>  Steve
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Thanks for these but they seem to have made no difference - it still
loads (visually) in chunks on the screen taking quite a while.
Intrestingly, with the looping idea I got it to print out on each loop
and some took a substantial amount of time to load compared to others
(I tried using 1500 and then 10,000 size chunks,with the code being:
            if self.path.endswith(".jpg"):
                print(curdir + sep + self.path)
                f = open(curdir + sep + self.path,"rb")
                self.send_response(200)
                self.send_header('Content-type',	'image/jpg')
                self.end_headers()
                h = 10000
                while h==10000:
                    g = f.read(10000)
                    h = len(g)
                    print h
                    self.wfile.write(g)

                #self.wfile.write(f.read())

                #shutil.copyfileobj(f,self.wfile)
                f.close()
                return

I also tried loading it to memory before it was requested but that
also made no difference.
If anyone's got any suggestions, I would be very greatful,
Paul