I often have a need to serve a local directory via HTTP. In the old days the built-in Python webserver was enough, but at some point browsers became more aggres

I often have a need to serve a local directory via HTTP. In the old days the built-in Python webserver was enough, but at some point browsers became more aggressive about concurrent connections and the single-threaded `python -m SimpleHTTPServer` would just get stuck if it received two requests at once. As a workaround, I wrote a small wrapper script that would enable multi-threading for SimpleHTTPServer. ~/bin/http-cwd , Python 2 version (original): #!/usr/bin/python import argparse import BaseHTTPServer import SimpleHTTPServer import SocketServer import sys class ThreadedHTTPServer(SocketServer.ThreadingMixIn, BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer): pass def main(argv): parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument( "--port", type = int, nargs = "?", action = "store", default = 8000, help = "Specify alternate port [default: 8000]", ) parser.add_argument( "--iface", type = str, nargs = "?", action = "store", default = "127.0.0.1", help = "Specify iface [default: 127.0.0.1]", ) args = parser.parse_args(argv[1:]) server_address = (args.iface, args.port) srv = ThreadedHTTPServer(server_address, SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler) sa = srv.socket.getsockname() print "Serving http://%s:%r ..." % (sa[0], sa[1]) srv.serve_forever() if __name__ == "__main__": sys.exit(main(sys.argv)) Python 3 version (necessary for platforms that have dropped Python 2, such as macOS): #!/usr/bin/python3 import argparse import http.server import socketserver import sys class ThreadedHTTPServer(socketserver.ThreadingMixIn, http.server.HTTPServer): pass def main(argv): parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument( "--port", type = int, nargs = "?", action = "store", default = 8000, help = "Specify alternate port [default: 8000]", ) parser.add_argument( "--iface", type = str, nargs = "?", action = "store", default = "127.0.0.1", help = "Specify iface [default: 127.0.0.1]", ) args = parser.parse_args(argv[1:]) server_address = (args.iface, args.port) srv = ThreadedHTTPServer(server_address, http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler) sa = srv.socket.getsockname() print("Serving http://%s:%r ..." % (sa[0], sa[1])) srv.serve_forever() if __name__ == "__main__": sys.exit(main(sys.argv))