def do_GET(self):
""" 3 possibilities:
/holmes/offset/n - n chars from holmes.txt starting at offset
/alice/offset/n - n chars from alice.txt starting at offset
/sleep/n - sleep n seconds return message "slept <n> seconds"
"""
parsed_path = urlparse.urlparse(self.path)
try:
# NB: router is a separate module so that we can import it here
# and in our test code
message,sleepsec = router.getmessage(parsed_path.path)
except:
self.send_error(404)
return
if sleepsec: time.sleep(sleepsec)
self.send_response(200)
self.end_headers()
self.wfile.write(message)
return
def get_refdata(self, qlist):
messages=[]
for q in qlist:
message,sleepsec=router.getmessage(q)
messages.append(message)
return messages