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+"""Basic http server for tests to simulate PyPI or custom indexes
+"""
+import urllib2
+from threading import Thread
+from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer
+from SimpleHTTPServer import SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
+
+class IndexServer(HTTPServer):
+    """Basic single-threaded http server simulating a package index
+
+    You can use this server in unittest like this::
+        s = IndexServer()
+        s.start()
+        index_url = s.base_url() + 'mytestindex'
+        # do some test requests to the index
+        s.stop()
+    """
+    def __init__(self):
+        HTTPServer.__init__(self, ('', 0), SimpleHTTPRequestHandler)
+        self._run = True
+
+    def serve(self):
+        while True:
+            self.handle_request()
+            if not self._run: break
+
+    def start(self):
+        self.thread = Thread(target=self.serve)
+        self.thread.start()
+
+    def stop(self):
+        """self.shutdown is not supported on python < 2.6"""
+        self._run = False
+        urllib2.urlopen('http://127.0.0.1:%s/' % self.server_address[1])
+        self.thread.join()
+
+    def base_url(self):
+        port = self.server_address[1]
+        return 'http://127.0.0.1:%s/setuptools/tests/indexes/' % port