I built a simple zero-configuration FTP server that runs in a browser some time ago (http://ezyftpserver.com/). Been wondering if I should do the same with a HTTP server?
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
#12I built a simple zero-configuration FTP server that runs in a browser some time ago ( http://ezyftpserver.com/ ). Been wondering if I should do the same with a HTTP server?
Nice idea, jftr opera already offers an http server inside your browser, it is called unite, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(web_browser)#Opera_Unite
I just had a look at your page and it seems you used java for providing the ftp server. How do you handle devices behind firewalls/NAT?
Re: Http-server, a simple zero-configuration command line http server
#13Nice work guys, any gzip support for js, css, and static html?
Re: Http-server, a simple zero-configuration command line http server
#14I built a simple zero-configuration FTP server that runs in a browser some time ago ( http://ezyftpserver.com/ ). Been wondering if I should do the same with a HTTP server?
Nice idea, jftr opera already offers an http server inside your browser, it is called unite, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(web_browser)#Opera_Unite I just had a look at your page and it seems you used java for providing the ftp server. How do you handle devices behind firewalls/NAT?
I don't. :-) It's Apache FTP server wrapped in an applet.
Re: Http-server, a simple zero-configuration command line http server
#15Looks nice, I was looking for something similar the other day, easily sharing a directory over HTTP from command line. I ended up writing a couple of very simple bash functions that added/removed the current directory to ~/Sites (I'm on a Mac). Apache did the rest.
Re: Http-server, a simple zero-configuration command line http server
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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.
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Re: Http-server, a simple zero-configuration command line http server
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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?
once i wanted to serve a quick and dirty page of 200 thumbnails but python's HTTP server choked after a few people tried it concurrently. it's single threaded and just wouldn't hack it.
luckily if you have twisted installed, you can run "twistd web -n -p PORT --path ." it's just as easy as the basic HTTP server but way faster.
Re: Http-server, a simple zero-configuration command line http server
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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Re: Http-server, a simple zero-configuration command line http server
#19python -m SimpleHTTPServer
python -m http.server
for Python 3.0+ http://docs.python.org/library/simplehttpserver.html
Re: Http-server, a simple zero-configuration command line http server
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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it's marak squires, he has lots of sock puppet accounts.