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Hyper File Server

Assuming a large directory with many sub-directories and varying file-types are expected to be available over HTTP.

This program should serve these files under the following requirements:

  • Serve up Markdown/rST/asciidoc etc., files as HTML (ie., behave as a "Handler" in Apache)
  • Render a predefined set of files (eg: README.md, README.txt) as HTML files at the end of file listing in a directoy (ie., behave as ReadmeName in Apache)
  • Compressed files should be shown as browsable directory.
  • search file names.
  • search contents
  • navigate files by - creation, last modified, file type
  • edit text file types.
  • annotate every file with metadata such as tags, summary etc.,
  • show metadata, summary etc., next to each file in the directory view if available.
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