Python -m http.server 443 -- with SSL?

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Is it possible to create a temporary Python3 HTTP server with an SSL certificate? For example:

$ python3 -m http.server 443 --certificate /path/to/cert
server python-3.x ssl http python
2 Answers

Not from the command line, but it's pretty straightforward to write a simple script to do so.

from http.server import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler 
import ssl
httpd = HTTPServer(('localhost', 4443), BaseHTTPRequestHandler)
httpd.socket = ssl.wrap_socket(
    httpd.socket,
    keyfile="path/to/key.pem",
    certfile='path/to/cert.pem',
    server_side=True)
httpd.serve_forever()

Credit

If you are not restricted to the standard library and can install pip packages, there are also a number of other options, for example you can install uwsgi, which accepts command line options.

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Actually no, but there is an implementation that uses the same package with ssl. You should try it.

The script is written using Python 2 but it is pretty easy to implement again with Python 3 since it is 5 lines.

The http.server is the Python 3 is the equivalent to SimpleHTTPServer from Python 2.

import BaseHTTPServer, SimpleHTTPServer
import ssl

httpd = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(('localhost', 4443), SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler)
httpd.socket = ssl.wrap_socket (httpd.socket, certfile='./server.pem', server_side=True)
httpd.serve_forever()

Script credits to dergachev

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