Mass Deface >stdout, "Hello world!" print >>stdout h = environ.items(); h.sort() for k,v in h: print >>stdout, k,'=', repr(v) start_response("200 OK", [('Content-Type','text/plain')]) return [stdout.getvalue()] def make_server( host, port, app, server_class=WSGIServer, handler_class=WSGIRequestHandler ): """Create a new WSGI server listening on `host` and `port` for `app`""" server = server_class((host, port), handler_class) server.set_app(app) return server if __name__ == '__main__': httpd = make_server('', 8000, demo_app) sa = httpd.socket.getsockname() print "Serving HTTP on", sa[0], "port", sa[1], "..." import webbrowser webbrowser.open('http://localhost:8000/xyz?abc') httpd.handle_request() # serve one request, then exit