Flask: after some time, the server stops responding
I am using flask server to serve static files from the server, but from time to time the server gets completely unresponsive, the file upload keeps loading but not loading. When I opened the terminal, I found some strange requests, I pressed CTRL + C and the server immediately became responsive again and the download continues. This happens every time so often and I have no idea what is causing this and how to prevent it from freezing my flask server is someone trying to hack?
user@server:~/worker# python server.py
* Running on http://0.0.0.0:80/
93.134.13.318 - - [03/Sep/2014 02:07:18] code 400, message Bad request syntax ('\x00')
93.134.13.318 - - [03/Sep/2014 02:07:18] "" 400 -
93.134.13.318 - - [03/Sep/2014 02:07:19] "GET http://httpheader.net HTTP/1.1" 404 -
93.134.13.318 - - [03/Sep/2014 02:07:40] code 400, message Bad request syntax ('\x04\x01\x00P\xc6\xce\x0eu0\x00')
93.174.93.218 - - [03/Sep/2014 02:07:40] "P u0" 400 -
^C----------------------------------------
Exception happened during processing of request from ('93.174.93.218 ', 45082)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 284, in _handle_request_noblock
self.process_request(request, client_address)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 310, in process_request
self.finish_request(request, client_address)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 323, in finish_request
self.RequestHandlerClass(request, client_address, self)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 638, in __init__
self.handle()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/werkzeug/serving.py", line 200, in handle
rv = BaseHTTPRequestHandler.handle(self)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/BaseHTTPServer.py", line 340, in handle
self.handle_one_request()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/werkzeug/serving.py", line 231, in handle_one_request
self.raw_requestline = self.rfile.readline()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 447, in readline
data = self._sock.recv(self._rbufsize)
KeyboardInterrupt
----------------------------------------
42.36.63.90 - - [03/Sep/2014 03:21:20] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 404 -
63.63.193.195 - - [03/Sep/2014 03:21:20] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 404 -
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I had the same problem. It is common knowledge that django / flask applications run under python server.py because it is not the optimal environment for them. Use it for testing purposes only. When you're done with this and want to release, you should put it behind wsgi / uwsgi + apache / nginx and your problem will go away.
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