SimpleHTTPServer erroring after being scanned with a basic nmap scan nmap localhost -p 8000 Starting Nmap 6.40 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2014-03-11 15:31 GMT Nmap scan report for localhost (127.0.0.1) Host is up (0.00019s latency). rDNS record for 127.0.0.1: dine.dev PORT STATE SERVICE 8000/tcp open http-alt Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.08 seconds python -m SimpleHTTPServer Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ... ---------------------------------------- Exception happened during processing of request from ('127.0.0.1', 55618) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 295, in _handle_request_noblock self.process_request(request, client_address) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 321, in process_request self.finish_request(request, client_address) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 334, in finish_request self.RequestHandlerClass(request, client_address, self) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 649, in __init__ self.handle() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/BaseHTTPServer.py", line 340, in handle self.handle_one_request() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/BaseHTTPServer.py", line 310, in handle_one_request self.raw_requestline = self.rfile.readline(65537) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 476, in readline data = self._sock.recv(self._rbufsize) error: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer ----------------------------------------