Have you ever used the command python -m http.server and thought hmm... I really wish this didn't require such a heavy depedency like Python?
Well, now you can accomplish the same goal from the comfort of ZSH! Simply add this line to your zsrhc, then type serve in the folder you'd like to start a HTTP server for.
serve () { rm /tmp/tunnel; mkfifo /tmp/tunnel; echo "Serving $(pwd) on 127.0.0.1:8000..."; while true; do (printf "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\n"; (reqreader() { while IFS= read line; do [[ $line = $'\r' ]] && break; echo "$line"; done; exit 0; }; var=$(</tmp/tunnel | reqreader); var=$(echo "$var" | grep ^GET | sed 's/GET \(.*\) HTTP\/1\.1.*/\1/'); var=$(echo "$var" | sed 's/^\(.*\)@$/\1/' | sed 's/^\(.*\)\*/\1/'); var=$(echo "<!doctype html><html><head><title>$(pwd)</title></head><body>"; (cat "./$var" 2> /dev/null || (ls -F "./$var" 2> /dev/null | sed 's/\(.*\)/<a href="\1">\1<\/a><br \/>/')); echo "</body></html>"); printf "Content-Length: "; echo "$var" | wc -c; printf "\r\n\r\n"; echo $var)) | nc -l 8000 | >/tmp/tunnel; done }Alternatively:
# Multi-line version
serve () {
rm /tmp/tunnel
mkfifo /tmp/tunnel
echo "Serving $(pwd) on 127.0.0.1:8000..."
while true;
do ( \
printf "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\n"; (\
reqreader() {
while IFS= read line; do
[[ $line = $'\r' ]] && break;
echo "$line";
done;
exit 0;
}
var=$(</tmp/tunnel | reqreader)
var=$(echo "$var" | grep ^GET | sed 's/GET \(.*\) HTTP\/1\.1.*/\1/')
var=$(echo "$var" | sed 's/^\(.*\)@$/\1/' | sed 's/^\(.*\)\*/\1/')
var=$(echo "<!doctype html><html><head><title>$(pwd)</title></head><body>";
(cat "./$var" 2> /dev/null || \
(ls -F "./$var" 2> /dev/null | sed 's/\(.*\)/<a href="\1">\1<\/a><br \/>/'));
echo "</body></html>");
printf "Content-Length: ";
echo "$var" | wc -c; printf "\r\n\r\n"; echo $var)) \
| nc -l 8000 | >/tmp/tunnel
done
}