willurd

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

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Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

peterc

#           NAME: authinabox
#        VERSION: 1.01 (Dec 27, 2008)
#         AUTHOR: Peter Cooper [ http://www.rubyinside.com/ github:peterc twitter:peterc ]
#    DESCRIPTION: An "all in one" Sinatra library containing a User model and authentication
#                 system for both session-based logins OR HTTP Basic auth (for APIs, etc).
#                 This is an "all in one" system so you will probably need to heavily tailor
#                 it to your own ideas, but it will work "out of the box" as-is.
#  COMPATIBILITY: - Tested on 0.3.2 AND the latest rtomayko Hoboken build! (recommended for the latter though)
#                 - NEEDS DataMapper!
#                 - Less work needed if you use initializer library -- http://gist.github.com/40238