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I can think of use cases for wanting a quick simple, easy to configure http server.

I can think of use cases for wanting to be able to serve >1,000 requests a second.

I can't think of any that fall into both categories ... am I just lacking imagination?

once i wanted to serve a quick and dirty page of 200 thumbnails but python's HTTP server choked after a few people tried it concurrently. it's single threaded and just wouldn't hack it.

luckily if you have twisted installed, you can run "twistd web -n -p PORT --path ." it's just as easy as the basic HTTP server but way faster.

This is a very good suggestion.

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