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One command line web server using nc (netcat)
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serve file as response

(macOS) while true; do printf 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n\r\n'; cat <file>; | nc -l 10100; done

(linux) while true; do printf 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n\r\n' && cat <file> | nc -l -p 10100; done

request http://127.0.0.1:10100

// use port > 1023 for non-root :)

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