Quick-start a HTTP server

netcat

Serve an empty response once and exit

BSD macOS

$ { echo "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" } | nc -l 8080

Serve an empty response

BSD macOS

$ while :; do { echo "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" } | nc -l 8080; done

Serve a file once and exit

BSD macOS

$ { echo -n "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\nContent-Length: $(wc -c </path/to/file)\r\n\r\n"; cat /path/to/file; } | nc -l 8080

Serve a file

BSD macOS

$ while :; do { echo -n "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\nContent-Length: $(wc -c </path/to/file)\r\n\r\n"; cat /path/to/file; } | nc -l 8080; done

Static server

Serve the working directory and its files

$ npx serve # requires npm

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