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Python SimpleHTTPServer with SSL
# useful for running ssl server on localhost
# which in turn is useful for working with WebSocket Secure (wss)
# copied from http://www.piware.de/2011/01/creating-an-https-server-in-python/
# ubuntu prerequisites: g++ curl
echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc
mkdir ~/local
mkdir ~/node-latest-install
cd ~/node-latest-install
curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1
./configure --prefix=~/local
make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds...