Can be launched on any port and dumps out what it receives for debugging purposes

tinyserver.py

import json
from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer

class MyHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):

    def do_GET(self):
        print self.headers
        print self.command
        print self.path
        print self.request_version
        print self.protocol_version
        self.send_response(200)
        return

server = HTTPServer(('', 8443), MyHandler)
print 'started httpserver...'
server.serve_forever()