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+# Copyright 2023 The Chromium Authors
+# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+# found in the LICENSE file.
+
+import functools
+import http
+import logging
+import os
+import threading
+
+from http.server import SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
+
+SRC_DIR = os.path.abspath(
+    os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), *([os.pardir] * 4)))
+
+HTTP_DATA_BASEDIR = os.path.join(
+    SRC_DIR, 'chrome', 'test', 'data', 'chromedriver')
+
+def start_http_server(port:int = 8000,
+                      directory: str = None) -> http.server.HTTPServer:
+  """Starts a HTTP server serving the given directory."""
+  if directory is None:
+    directory = HTTP_DATA_BASEDIR
+  http_server = http.server.HTTPServer(('', port),
+      functools.partial(SimpleHTTPRequestHandler, directory=directory))
+  logging.info('local http server is running as http://%s:%s',
+               http_server.server_name, http_server.server_port)
+  threading.Thread(target=http_server.serve_forever).start()
+  return http_server