impromptu web server using netcat

[David J Berube]

Hi,

Here's a one-line web server command in ruby:

  ruby -e "require 'webrick'; 
s=WEBrick::HTTPServer.new(:DocumentRoot=>Dir::pwd,:Port=>9999); 
trap('INT'){s.shutdown}; s.start"

Complements of here:

http://brianellin.com/blog/2006/03/30/one-line-webserver-in-ruby/

Note that the netcat is considerably lighter weight than either the 
Python or Ruby intepreters. Also note that there is a nice degree of 
elegance in that the NetCat solution serves one file and only one file.

Take it easy,

David Berube
Berube Consulting
djberube at berubeconsulting.com
(603)-485-9622
http://www.berubeconsulting.com/

Kent Johnson wrote:
> aluminumsulfate at earthlink.net wrote:
>> Hi, All...
>>
>> Most of you are probably familiar with the ever useful TCP/IP utility
>> "netcat" (often /usr/bin/nc).  It's real handy for doing quick and
>> easy file transfers, or otherwise tossing bytes about on a network.
>> It runs on most variants of UNIX (including Linux) and there's even a
>> version for Win32.
> 
> If you have Python installed on the source machine, the single line
> python -c "import SimpleHTTPServer; SimpleHTTPServer.test()"
> 
> will start a real web server on port 8000, serving static content from 
> the directory tree rooted at the current working dir. The server 
> includes support for directory listings and will set the correct 
> content-type for many types of files.
> 
> Kent
> 
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