Have you ever wanted to just start a Webserver in a second, for a quick and dirty task but didn’t want to install a full LAMP/LEMP stack? This is possible with the help of a python module and here it is in action:
[email protected]:~$ mkdir testare
[email protected]:~$ cd testare/
[email protected]:~/testare$ echo MERGE! > index.html
[email protected]:~/testare$ pushd $PWD; python3 -m http.server; popd
~/testare ~/testare
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 (http://0.0.0.0:8000/) ...
192.168.1.126 - - [29/Apr/2020 14:16:10] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 -
192.168.1.126 - - [29/Apr/2020 14:16:10] code 404, message File not found
192.168.1.126 - - [29/Apr/2020 14:16:10] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 -
[email protected]:~# curl http://192.168.1.94:8000/
MERGE!
Oh and this is cross-platform, of course. If you have python installed on a Windows machine.
Not to mention that this is possible even from low-priviledge user accounts.
For more details about this module please see the official documentation.