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One-shot HTTP webserver to serve file contents using netcat
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servefile.sh
{ echo -ne "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\nContent-Length: $(wc -c <some.file)\r\n\r\n"; cat some.file; } | nc -l 8080
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talwai commented Jan 23, 2015

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netcat

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zfortier commented Jan 6, 2021

I usually need to invoke netcat using nc -l -p 8080, but otherwise this is perfect and has been useful to me many times.

Thanks!!

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