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Help me here.

I once used a utility (written in Python, I think), that is for sharing files across machines using HTTP.

It creates a tiny web server + URL which is good for one single GET request only, then it shuts down.

This allows you to GET a file from another machine using HTTP.

Please can anyone tell me what this command is?

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  • I vaguely remember reading about something like this. But for the life of me, I cannot remember the name of the program.
    – Zoredache
    Jan 20, 2010 at 22:21

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Are you talking about woof?

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Actually you don't need anything except Python to do that.

cd dir/to/share
python -m SimpleHTTPServer

This way you can access dir/to/share through http://HOSTNAME/. To stop sharing just CTRL+C.

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  • SimpleHTTPServer's default port is 8000, so I guess it would be HOSTNAME:8000 . Simple and very useful !
    – Falken
    Jan 21, 2010 at 10:54
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    Yes, that is right. You can also specify a different port as the last argument, eg. python -m SimpleHTTPServer 7999 will listen on port 7999
    – rocku
    Jan 21, 2010 at 11:09
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I would still like to show you this project called quickserve. It seems to improve upon the ideas of woof. from the CLI you can have it share a file or directory, generate a random username/password, http server and URL. You can even set the '-u' flag and enable an upload to your web server. Its only make depend is python.

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And if you don't have Python? Use NetCat.

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