[Python] in python threadinghttpserver - stop server from inside handler

I have the following "main" code:

with http.server.ThreadingHTTPServer( ("", port), Handler ) as daemon:
print(f"serving on port {port} process {os.getpid()} ")
while True:
try:
daemon.handle_request()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
print("\nexiting")
return 0


which works great. However - this is only used for local testing and on the ci machine - so I want an easy way to shut it down and replace it with the next one - so inside the Handler do_GET(self) I added the following code:

if path == "/shutdown":
throw Exception("shut down")


and if I do a curl http://localhost:9000/shutdown.... I do indeed see an exception - nicely displayed and swallowed inside the thread.

And I've found it remarkably hard to figure out any way of stopping the server from inside the handler - because the handler is running in another process.

Is there a simple way of doing it?

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