Comments on: Help me find a cool little unix http utility I can't remember!

Question: Help me find a cool little unix http utility I can't remember!

floam — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:37:05 -0800

I saw a really cool unix utility the other day blogged about somewhere, that in addition to some little boring http-ey tasks I can't remember, it also served as a tiny little HTTP-server-in-a-pinch like so: ./magicutil file.tar and boom, http://localhost/file.tar is alive. What was it!? Note: please don't try to find something that can /probably/ do this or show me a cool python script that will - this did some other cool stuff too I can't remember!

By: floam

floam — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:37:22 -0800

Hey! all mine linebreaks died.

By: hades

hades — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:06:55 -0800

It was probably netcat.

By: hades

hades — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:16:59 -0800

Scratch that. While netcat could certainly be used to make a tiny http server (among many, many other uses), it wouldn't be quite as simple as that.

By: rsanheim

rsanheim — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 01:13:58 -0800

Wbox - http://hping.org/wbox/.It looks very cool - added it to my delicious acct immediately when I saw it last week.

By: mulligan

mulligan — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 01:26:38 -0800

thttpd without any arguments will start thttpd with the docroot in the current dir

and webfs also acts in a similar manner

both of those can be found via apt

By: aparrish

aparrish — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 05:16:42 -0800

You can use python to do this without running a script. Just type this at the command line:

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

Voila, current directory served up over HTTP on localhost:8000.

By: Nelson

Nelson — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 09:14:20 -0800

I use mini_httpd for this. Same author as thttpd, but minier.

By: jon4009

jon4009 — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 09:57:20 -0800

Maybe you mean BusyBox?

It has compact versions of pretty much every *nix command, and the "httpd" one (look here and search on httpd) seems like it would do something similar to what you're after?

By: floam

floam — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:45:56 -0800

Aha! Wbox was it, thanks!