"""
<Program>
  simple_server.py
 
<Author>
  Konstantin Andrianov

<Started>
  February 15, 2012
  
<Copyright>
  See LICENSE for licensing information.

<Purpose>
  This is a basic server that was designed to be used in conjunction with 
  test_download.py to test download.py module. 

<Referencesi>
  SimpleHTTPServer:
    http://docs.python.org/library/simplehttpserver.html#module-SimpleHTTPServer

"""

import sys
import random
import SimpleHTTPServer
import SocketServer

PORT = 0

def _port_gen():
  return random.randint(30000, 45000)

if len(sys.argv) > 1:
  try:
    PORT = int(sys.argv[1])
    if PORT < 30000 or PORT > 45000:
      raise ValueError
  except ValueError:
    PORT = _port_gen()
else:
  PORT = _port_gen()

Handler = SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
httpd = SocketServer.TCPServer(("", PORT), Handler)

#print "PORT: ", PORT
httpd.serve_forever()