About the Project

This is a finished Python implementation for the "Build Your Own HTTP server" Challenge. This code implements functionality for all stages (and extensions) of the challenge as of 2025-02-13.

What can it do?

1. Respond to a GET request made to /echo/{string} with a body of {string}.
2. Respond to a GET request made to /user-agent with a body containing your user-agent.
3. Return a file when a GET request is made to /files/{filename} given the server is started with the command line option --directory <dir> and {filename} is present in the <dir>.
4. Write a file {filename} to <dir> when a POST request is made to /files/{filename} and --directory <dir> is provided on the command line.
5. Respond with a gzip encoded body when the client's Accept-Encoding header contains gzip.

TODO

• Refactor code to be more pythonic.
• Restructure the project into a codebase that is simple to maintain and extend (demonstrate how I approach software engineering versus just slinging code).

Test Run Video

A short video of the code being run in the codecrafters test environment:

codecrafters-http-server-python-test-run-av1.webm