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local static file server
SHOW HN2016
18points
7comments
#1,262of 2,264 in 2016
Top 56%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
0 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.
Idea: 0 for, 2 against
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What people liked
Useful for checking gzipped size against the 14kb boundary
From 1 comment
Python's SimpleHTTPServer is for when you have some directory on your computer and you want to test it locally in the browser. That's all. That is however, the same intended…
rhardih on HN
Objections
Gzip and HTTP/2 are not needed for a simple local server
From 1 comment
This doesn't make any sense to me. And I've written a Go reverse proxy server https://github.com/carlmjohnson/simple-reverse-proxy . Python's SimpleHTTPServer is for when you…
earthboundkid on HN
Go is not pre-installed on most systems, unlike Python
From 1 comment
It's like `python3 -m http.server` but in a language that is rarely pre-installed on systems with an external program that has two external dependencies.
Socketubs on HN
Requests
HTTP/2 support in Python http.server or Node http-server
From 1 comment
Or `http-server` from `npm install -g http-server` in a language that frontend developers and increasing numbers of backend developers actually work with. That said, HTTP/2…
WorldMaker on HN
Questions
Why Python's SimpleHTTPServer does not play HTML5 video well
From 2 comments
If you have python-twisted installed, you can also use this one-liner: ``` python -c 'from twisted.web.server import Site; from twisted.web.static import File; from…
chatmasta on HNEasiest explanation is MIME type information. http.server module has only the bare minimum support for MIME types. Per standards things like HTML5 video tag are very reliant on…
WorldMaker on HN
Alternatives named
Python http.server
From 1 comment
It's like `python3 -m http.server` but in a language that is rarely pre-installed on systems with an external program that has two external dependencies.
Socketubs on HN
npm http-server
From 1 comment
Or `http-server` from `npm install -g http-server` in a language that frontend developers and increasing numbers of backend developers actually work with. That said, HTTP/2…
WorldMaker on HN
Twisted one-liner file server
From 1 comment
If you have python-twisted installed, you can also use this one-liner: ``` python -c 'from twisted.web.server import Site; from twisted.web.static import File; from…
chatmasta on HN
Nginx, Apache, or Caddy
From 1 comment
This doesn't make any sense to me. And I've written a Go reverse proxy server https://github.com/carlmjohnson/simple-reverse-proxy . Python's SimpleHTTPServer is for when you…
earthboundkid on HN