def _main(self):
""" The main procedure of the thread. Runs server and is expected to be
either stopped by the user with KeyboardInterrupt or killed when the
program exits.
Exceptions are passed to the main thread through queue passed to
the constructor.
"""
try:
httpd = TCPServer(("", self.port), ReportingHTTPRequestHandler)
logger.info("Starting HTTP server at port %d\n", self.port)
httpd.probe_data_provider = self.probe_data_provider
httpd.serve_forever()
except:
logger.debug("An exception has interrupted the server thread (passed to the main thread)")
self.exception_queue.put(sys.exc_info())
