from http.server import * class Handler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler): def do_GET(self): self.send_response(200) self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html') self.end_headers() f = open('/home/carl/DCP/KDMs/Enc2_FTR-1_F-133_MOS_2K_20180925_IOP_OV_DKDM.xml', 'r') self.wfile.write(bytearray(f.read(), 'UTF-8')) f.close() server_address = ('', 8000) httpd = HTTPServer(('', 8000), Handler) httpd.serve_forever()