Serves up the current directory to localhost via an instant HTTP server.

httpserver.py

import sys
import BaseHTTPServer
from SimpleHTTPServer import SimpleHTTPRequestHandler

try:
    HandlerClass = SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
    ServerClass  = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer
    Protocol     = "HTTP/1.0"

    if sys.argv[1:]:
        port = int(sys.argv[1])
    else:
        port = 8000
    server_address = ('127.0.0.1', port)

    HandlerClass.protocol_version = Protocol
    httpd = ServerClass(server_address, HandlerClass)

    sa = httpd.socket.getsockname()
    print "Serving HTTP on", sa[0], "port", sa[1], "..."

    httpd.serve_forever()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    print "\nExiting..."
    sys.exit(0)