Creating a server that serves both over HTTP and HTTPS

First let’s look at the code:

"""
Python 27
CherryPy 3.2.2
"""

import cherrypy

DEBUG = False

class ServerMain(object):
    '''
    A class that represents and encapsulates methods
    for communicating with the server
    '''

    def index(self):
        '''
        Method that handles the index page
        If the debug mode is on, then display a page for uploading files
        '''

        if(DEBUG):
            return """</pre>
<h2>Upload a file</h2>
<form action="upload" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post">
                filename: <input type="file" name="myFile" />

                <input type="submit" />
                </form>
<h2>Download a file</h2>
<pre>

                <a href="download">This one</a>

            """
        else:
            return """

</pre>
<h2>Status: OK</h2>
<pre>
            """

    index.exposed = True

    def upload(self, myFile):
        '''
        Method that handles uploads. A file handle will be attached
        to the parameter when an upload is done. Note that the name of
        "myFile" argument is important since the client code needs to
        use that as the file name key parameter when uploading data.
        '''

        out = open("uploaded/"+myFile.filename, 'wb')

        while True:
            data = myFile.file.read(8192)
            if not data:
                break
            out.write(data)
        out.close()

        return "OK"

    uploadx.exposed = True

if __name__ == '__main__':
    '''
    Main. Initialize server instances.
    '''

    cherrypy.tree.mount(ServerMain())

    cherrypy.server.unsubscribe()

    HTTPS_SERVER = cherrypy._cpserver.Server()
    HTTPS_SERVER.socket_port = 8443
    HTTPS_SERVER._socket_host = '0.0.0.0'
    HTTPS_SERVER.max_request_body_size = 120 * 1024 # ~100kb
    HTTPS_SERVER.thread_pool = 30
    HTTPS_SERVER.ssl_module = 'pyopenssl'
    HTTPS_SERVER.ssl_certificate = 'server.crt'
    HTTPS_SERVER.ssl_private_key = 'server.key'
    #HTTPS_SERVER.ssl_certificate_chain = '/home/ubuntu/gd_bundle.crt'
    HTTPS_SERVER.subscribe()

    HTTP_SERVER = cherrypy._cpserver.Server()
    HTTP_SERVER.socket_port = 8080
    HTTP_SERVER._socket_host = "0.0.0.0"
    HTTP_SERVER.max_request_body_size = 120 * 1024 # ~100kb
    HTTP_SERVER.thread_pool = 30
    HTTP_SERVER.subscribe()

    cherrypy.engine.start()
    cherrypy.engine.block()

This is how you create such a server which is definitely as simple as it looks. Basically, you create two server instance and dedicate one to HTTP while you dedicate the other for HTTPS. Nevertheless, the SSL functionality of CherryPy has some bugs which can make your server crash. Occasionally you may get an assertion error like AssertionError: recv(8192) returned 16384 bytes. See this link for a fix for that case. You may also get an error like AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘socket_errors_to_ignore’. For that error, see this link.

References: http://www.zacwitte.com/running-cherrypy-on-multiple-ports-example