diff --git a/changelog.d/9039.removal b/changelog.d/9039.removal
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+Remove broken and unmaintained `demo/webserver.py` script.
diff --git a/demo/webserver.py b/demo/webserver.py
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--- a/demo/webserver.py
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-import argparse
-import BaseHTTPServer
-import os
-import SimpleHTTPServer
-import cgi, logging
-
-from daemonize import Daemonize
-
-
-class SimpleHTTPRequestHandlerWithPOST(SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
-    UPLOAD_PATH = "upload"
-
-    """
-    Accept all post request as file upload
-    """
-
-    def do_POST(self):
-
-        path = os.path.join(self.UPLOAD_PATH, os.path.basename(self.path))
-        length = self.headers["content-length"]
-        data = self.rfile.read(int(length))
-
-        with open(path, "wb") as fh:
-            fh.write(data)
-
-        self.send_response(200)
-        self.send_header("Content-Type", "application/json")
-        self.end_headers()
-
-        # Return the absolute path of the uploaded file
-        self.wfile.write('{"url":"/%s"}' % path)
-
-
-def setup():
-    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
-    parser.add_argument("directory")
-    parser.add_argument("-p", "--port", dest="port", type=int, default=8080)
-    parser.add_argument("-P", "--pid-file", dest="pid", default="web.pid")
-    args = parser.parse_args()
-
-    # Get absolute path to directory to serve, as daemonize changes to '/'
-    os.chdir(args.directory)
-    dr = os.getcwd()
-
-    httpd = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(("", args.port), SimpleHTTPRequestHandlerWithPOST)
-
-    def run():
-        os.chdir(dr)
-        httpd.serve_forever()
-
-    daemon = Daemonize(
-        app="synapse-webclient", pid=args.pid, action=run, auto_close_fds=False
-    )
-
-    daemon.start()
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    setup()