Tornado Web Server Handling Random URL Fetches

This function creates a web server based on Tornado that can handle HTTP requests and fetch content from a random URL.

Technology Stack : Tornado, HTTPClient

Code Type : Web Server

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
import random
import tornado.ioloop
import tornado.web
import tornado.httpclient

def fetch_random_url():
    urls = ["http://www.example.com", "http://www.google.com", "http://www.github.com"]
    return random.choice(urls)

def handle_request(request):
    client = tornado.httpclient.AsyncHTTPClient()
    response = client.fetch(fetch_random_url(), timeout=10)
    return response.body

def random_url_handler(request):
    return handle_request(request)

def xxx():
    class MainHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
        def get(self):
            self.write(handle_request(self))

    def main():
        application = tornado.web.Application([
            (r"/random_url", random_url_handler),
            (r"/", MainHandler),
        ])
        application.listen(8888)
        tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.current().start()

    xxx()

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