How do you override BaseHTTPRequestHandler log_message() method to log to a file rather than to console (sys.stderr)?
basehttprequesthandler, basehttpserver, logging, python
Solution
If you read the doc or source code for BaseHTTPRequestHandler you'll find that all logging goes thru `BaseHTTPRequestHandler.log_message()`, which docstring explicitely specifies:
Log an arbitrary message.
This is used by all other logging functions. Override it if you have specific logging wishes.
So the solution is obviously to leave `.send_response()` alone (obviously you want your response to be sent), and replace `.log_message()` with either a call to a proper logger (cf http://docs.python.org/2/library/logging.html) which is the clean and flexible way to to handle logging in Python or if you just want an quick hack a write to a filesystem file.
Problem
I'm creating a Webservice using BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer I would like to log the following to be logged to a file rather than to the console. But I have not managed to find a way to do so yet. ``` 10.23.23.19 - - [29/Nov/2013 08:39:06] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 - 10.23.23.19 - - [29/Nov/2013 08:39:06] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 - 10.24.20.14 - - [29/Nov/2013 08:39:27] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 - 10.24.20.14 - - [29/Nov/2013 08:39:31] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 - ``` My Code looks like this: ``` from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer from pysimplesoap.server import SoapDispatcher, SOAPHandler . # The rest of the code . . httpd = HTTPServer(("", 8059),SOAPHandler) httpd.dispatcher = dispatcher httpd.serve_forever() ``` I'm using Python 2.6