README.rst

claimchain http block server

Simple http-server for "claimchain" blocks. It uses Flask to serve HTTP GET and authenticated PUT requests.

getting started

• install with pip install cchttpserver

• run python -m cchttpserver which will tell you to create a config file and provides a simple example. Create a config.py file and run CCHTTPSERVER_CONFIG=config.py python -m cchttpserver.

• Then open another terminal and open a python prompt with "python" and type something like:

  import requests
  requests.put("http://USER:PASSWORD@localhost:5000/key1", "data1")
  r = requests.get("http://localhost:5000/key1")
  assert r.status_code == 200
  requests.delete("http://USER:PASSWORD@localhost:5000/USER/")
  r = requests.get("http://localhost:5000/key1")
  assert r.status_code == 404