Http-server, a simple zero-configuration command line http server
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Re: Http-server, a simple zero-configuration command line http server
#2python -m SimpleHTTPServer
Re: Http-server, a simple zero-configuration command line http server
#3python -m SimpleHTTPServer
python -m SimpleHTTPServer cannot be configured from the command line. You'll need to write an additional py script to do anything useful. It's also missing a bunch of features you are going to want, like AutoIndex.
It also cannot serve 6,000 requests per second out of the box.
Re: Http-server, a simple zero-configuration command line http server
#4python -m SimpleHTTPServer
python -m SimpleHTTPServer cannot be configured from the command line. You'll need to write an additional py script to do anything useful. It's also missing a bunch of features you are going to want, like AutoIndex. It also cannot serve 6,000 requests per second out of the box.
So is http-server supposed to be zero-configuration or configure-from-command-line server?
Re: Http-server, a simple zero-configuration command line http server
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
python -m SimpleHTTPServer cannot be configured from the command line. You'll need to write an additional py script to do anything useful. It's also missing a bunch of features you are going to want, like AutoIndex. It also cannot serve 6,000 requests per second out of the box.
So is http-server supposed to be zero-configuration or configure-from-command-line server?
Both.
It ships with sane defaults so you can type "http-server", but it also may optionally be configured with things like a path, a port, a host, etc.
Re: Http-server, a simple zero-configuration command line http server
#6python -m SimpleHTTPServer
python -m SimpleHTTPServer cannot be configured from the command line. You'll need to write an additional py script to do anything useful. It's also missing a bunch of features you are going to want, like AutoIndex. It also cannot serve 6,000 requests per second out of the box.
I did a `npm install http-server`.
It threw me a module not found error twice - once for `eyes` and once for `colors`
I ran it on a directory and tested it with `ab -n 100 -c 5 localhost:8080/`.
Concurrency Level: 5
Time taken for tests: 0.046 seconds
Complete requests: 100
Failed requests: 0
Write errors: 0
Total transferred: 175900 bytes
HTML transferred: 149900 bytes
Requests per second: 2159.97 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 2.315 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 0.463 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 3710.33 [Kbytes/sec] received
EDIT: `ab -n 15000 -c 5 localhost:8080/` is about 3000 req/s on my machine for http-server; 2200 for SimpleHTTPServer.
`python - SimpleHTTPServer 8080` gave me 1800 requests/second.
As far as configuration goes, for a dev server(that's what both SimpleHTTPServer and http-server are for me), the only configurations I do is to change the port.
Also, it's not like http-server is a highly configurable http server and framework combined into one - I for one can live without auto-index on/off.
Re: Http-server, a simple zero-configuration command line http server
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
python -m SimpleHTTPServer cannot be configured from the command line. You'll need to write an additional py script to do anything useful. It's also missing a bunch of features you are going to want, like AutoIndex. It also cannot serve 6,000 requests per second out of the box.
I did a `npm install http-server`. It threw me a module not found error twice - once for `eyes` and once for `colors` I ran it on a directory and tested it with `ab -n 100 -c 5 localhost:8080/`. Concurrency Level: 5 Time taken for tests: 0.046 seconds Complete requests: 100 Failed requests: 0 Write errors: 0 Total transferred: 175900 bytes HTML transferred: 149900 bytes Requests per second: 2159.97 [#/sec] (mean) Tim…
Sorry about that. Bumped to v0.1.1 and published to npm.
Should fix [dist] issues. I have a feeling you need to update your npm to version 1.0 as well.
Re: Http-server, a simple zero-configuration command line http server
#8Have a look at gatling http://www.fefe.de/gatling/ it's a http/ftp/smb server based on libowfat (-lowfat ;0) with ssl support. Contains basically everything you need to share a file. It is also quite scalable, see http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/ for an old benchmark.
One neat feature is that gatling disables the autoindex links for sorting the listing if wget is used to download/mirror a directory.
Gatling has a pretty good default configuration like automatically try to bound port 80 and if not available use port 8000 instead, automatically sharing the current directory etc. For a list of command-line configuration options have a look at http://paste.pocoo.org/show/409206/
Re: Http-server, a simple zero-configuration command line http server
#9python -m SimpleHTTPServer
python -m SimpleHTTPServer cannot be configured from the command line. You'll need to write an additional py script to do anything useful. It's also missing a bunch of features you are going to want, like AutoIndex. It also cannot serve 6,000 requests per second out of the box.
However, it is simple and it is zero-configuration - exactly your definition from your title.
Re: Http-server, a simple zero-configuration command line http server
#10python -m SimpleHTTPServer
python -m SimpleHTTPServer cannot be configured from the command line. You'll need to write an additional py script to do anything useful. It's also missing a bunch of features you are going to want, like AutoIndex. It also cannot serve 6,000 requests per second out of the box.
I can think of use cases for wanting a quick simple, easy to configure http server.
I can think of use cases for wanting to be able to serve >1,000 requests a second.
I can't think of any that fall into both categories ... am I just lacking imagination?