Audio/Video streaming fails using SimpleHTTPServer

Question

I share files in a folder to other devices by invoking a server using python -m SimpleHTTPServer.

I just tried to stream videos/audio (standard mp4 & mp3, both under 20MB) to another computer using this & it WORKS (but by throwing the errors (listed down) in the terminal).

Somehow, the video/audio fails (except very small mp3 files) to play with Safari in iPhone/iPad. It is definitely not related to the media files, as I streamed them successfully using Apache in iPhone.

Any idea why it happens?

Exception happened during processing of request from ('192.168.1.2', 51775)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 284, in _handle_request_noblock
    self.process_request(request, client_address)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 310, in process_request
    self.finish_request(request, client_address)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 323, in finish_request
    self.RequestHandlerClass(request, client_address, self)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 641, in __init__
    self.finish()
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 694, in finish
    self.wfile.flush()
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 303, in flush
    self._sock.sendall(view[write_offset:write_offset+buffer_size])
error: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

Answer 1

As sugested either use python alternatives, What is a faster alternative to Python's http.server (or SimpleHTTPServer)? or use full blown web serwer altogether. Quick google suggests that Mac supports both Nignx and Apache2.