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Ad hoc (one line) HTTP static servers in various programming languages https://gist.github.com/willurd/5720255 https://gist.github.com/willurd/5720255

by mtmail 6y ago

1f60c 6y ago
It would be interesting if someone benchmarked them
- ComputerGuru 6y ago
  They’re for dev purposes only; I think that would be testing for the wrong metric.
  - monkpit 6y ago
    It would probably still be interesting though!
    - berkes 6y ago
      What would it tell you when you see that e.g. the Python option is twice as fast as the Java one? Or that the node server boots slower then the php one?
alwillis 6y ago
Thanks; I was looking for just this a couple of days ago.
userbinator 6y ago
Good to see a netcat one show up there --- it is capable of serving only a single file, and you need to prepend the response headers yourself, but it's been very useful the few times I've had to use it.
- tdeck 6y ago
  I"be seen netcat used to support oauth login in some shell scripts.
IgorPartola 6y ago
Missed a couple: $ apache2 $ nginx My point is that while lots of languages include a web server in their standard library (one of these was a damn install! Like yes you can pip/gem/npm/etc install a server, that doesn’t make it a one line web server), it is by no means a one liner any more than the above two examples can be considered bash one liners.
- the_pwner224 6y ago
  On practically any linux (or mac) you can do $ python -m http.server 8080 to instantly start up a server in that directory. You can do this in multiple terminals to have multiple servers on different ports serving multiple directories. Nginx, Apache require significant configuration and reboot to apply changes. They're not at all comparable.
  - sgc 6y ago
    Apache usually just needs to reload the config file not reboot, and it's also often only a few lines to get whatever you want done. Reload might take 1/2 a second, but I doubt it takes even that long. Sure, if you want to load a module with a bunch of new functionality you might need the 2 seconds it takes to reboot unless you have thousands of sites, but that has been a rare experience in the last 7 years or so for me. If you have thousands of sites you are not using python server anyway. In the end apache config is relatively easy -- especially to just test stuff quickly --, it's the overall server security that is more nebulous due to the variety of attack vectors throughout the stack. I would guess all that is similar on Nginx. So sure, it is a little easier to just throw out a one liner, but it doesn't give you an environment that is similar to deploy, so the extra 2 minutes to open the apache config and reload is worth it to me for the implicit bug testing going on. Of course none of us has a horse in the race and to each his own on his own box. But it's fair to keep their names in the conversation at least.
  - Joker_vD 6y ago
    That comes really handy when you want to, say, transfer some files from your PC to your phone/tablet without uploading them somewhere else first.

Ad hoc (one line) HTTP static servers in various programming languages https://gist.github.com/willurd/5720255 https://gist.github.com/willurd/5720255

by mtmail 6y ago

Ad hoc (one line) HTTP static servers in various programming languages https://gist.github.com/willurd/5720255 https://gist.github.com/willurd/5720255

1f60c 6y ago

It would be interesting if someone benchmarked them

ComputerGuru 6y ago
They’re for dev purposes only; I think that would be testing for the wrong metric.
- monkpit 6y ago
  It would probably still be interesting though!
  - berkes 6y ago
    What would it tell you when you see that e.g. the Python option is twice as fast as the Java one? Or that the node server boots slower then the php one?

alwillis 6y ago

Thanks; I was looking for just this a couple of days ago.

userbinator 6y ago

Good to see a netcat one show up there --- it is capable of serving only a single file, and you need to prepend the response headers yourself, but it's been very useful the few times I've had to use it.

tdeck 6y ago
I"be seen netcat used to support oauth login in some shell scripts.

IgorPartola 6y ago

Missed a couple: $ apache2 $ nginx My point is that while lots of languages include a web server in their standard library (one of these was a damn install! Like yes you can pip/gem/npm/etc install a server, that doesn’t make it a one line web server), it is by no means a one liner any more than the above two examples can be considered bash one liners.

the_pwner224 6y ago
On practically any linux (or mac) you can do $ python -m http.server 8080 to instantly start up a server in that directory. You can do this in multiple terminals to have multiple servers on different ports serving multiple directories. Nginx, Apache require significant configuration and reboot to apply changes. They're not at all comparable.
- sgc 6y ago
  Apache usually just needs to reload the config file not reboot, and it's also often only a few lines to get whatever you want done. Reload might take 1/2 a second, but I doubt it takes even that long. Sure, if you want to load a module with a bunch of new functionality you might need the 2 seconds it takes to reboot unless you have thousands of sites, but that has been a rare experience in the last 7 years or so for me. If you have thousands of sites you are not using python server anyway. In the end apache config is relatively easy -- especially to just test stuff quickly --, it's the overall server security that is more nebulous due to the variety of attack vectors throughout the stack. I would guess all that is similar on Nginx. So sure, it is a little easier to just throw out a one liner, but it doesn't give you an environment that is similar to deploy, so the extra 2 minutes to open the apache config and reload is worth it to me for the implicit bug testing going on. Of course none of us has a horse in the race and to each his own on his own box. But it's fair to keep their names in the conversation at least.
- Joker_vD 6y ago
  That comes really handy when you want to, say, transfer some files from your PC to your phone/tablet without uploading them somewhere else first.