https://github.com/bboe/extended_http_server

An extended version of python's SimpleHTTPServer that supports https, authentication, rate limiting, and download resuming.
https://github.com/bboe/extended_http_server

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An extended version of python's SimpleHTTPServer that supports https, authentication, rate limiting, and download resuming.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bboe/extended_http_server
• Owner: bboe
• License: bsd-2-clause
• Created: 2012-08-26T06:44:20.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2021-07-17T06:43:21.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-01T23:57:53.809Z (8 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 9.77 KB
• Stars: 90
• Watchers: 13
• Forks: 9
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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README

        
### Installation

    pip install ext_http_server

### Generate a certificate

Run the following to generate cert.pem:

    openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -nodes -out cert.pem -keyout cert.pem

### Running ext_http_server

If you have files you want to serve in `/tmp/path/to/files/` run the following

to serve them up with a max outgoing throughput of 16KBps:

    ext_http_server --cert cert.pem -d /tmp/path/to/files -r16 -a foo:bar

By default, you will be able to access the webserver at

[https://localhost:8000](https://localhost:8000). To authenticate, use the

username `foo` and the password `bar` as indicated by the `-a foo:bar`

argument. Note that multiple `-a` arguments can be added to add more than one

user.