[Yum] Spawning a temporary Yum Server: Header issues

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 15:26 -0400, Jesse Noller wrote:
> On 4/26/06, Michael Stenner <mstenner at ece.arizona.edu> wrote:
> >
> > I just read through SimpleHTTPServer.py and BaseHTTPServer.py and
> > (after a cursory look) do not see where it does byte ranges.  I don't
> > think it does.  "Forcing the 1.1 protocol" simply turns on keepalive,
> > I think.  You'll probably need to hack in byte ranges, although that
> > would really not be hard and would probably be a welcome addition
> > upstream.
> >
> >                                         -Michael
> > --
> >   Michael D. Stenner                            mstenner at ece.arizona.edu
> >   ECE Department and Optical Sciences Center                520-626-1619
> >   University of Arizona                                         ECE 524G
> 
> That's a little above my head - I found PEP333 which seems to cover
> it, but no direct implementations. I might just switch to spawning out
> to a super-light http server instead. Thanks all.

lighttpd works in that role.

-sv