Re: Simple http server one-liner for some static files?

Yes, Python has quite a few excellent web-server programs ... and Perl has gadzillions. Just surf over to http://search.cpan.org, search for “HTTP server,” and you’ll see what I mean.

If you search instead for HTTP::Server, you’ll see some of the most readily-available packages, such as HTTP::Server::Simple and my latest personal favorite, HTTP::Server::Brick.

Each of these are very comparable to the Python package you cited. “You got a simple job to do, and you want a simple way to do it.” Done.

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Re^2: Simple http server one-liner for some static files? by Ea (Chaplain) on Jan 17, 2013 at 17:31 UTC
Better 2 years late, than never. :) The only problem with having gadzillions of programs is finding the right one for you. The poster was looking for this: http_this which didn't make the first 2 pages of results. Written 3 months earlier than the question, it's just a wrapper around the Plack::App::Directory which was suggested in another thread, but it's simpler, like the python command in a book on D3 that sent me looking for the perl equivalent of `python -m SimpleHTTPServer` perl -e 'print qq(Just another Perl Hacker\n)' # where's the irony switch?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Simple http server one-liner for some static files? by Anonymous Monk on Dec 31, 2014 at 01:39 UTC
Joining the "better late than never"-motto, here a (long) one-liner which—in constrast to the answers before—does not require non-core modules: `perl -MHTTP::Daemon -e '$d = HTTP::Daemon->new(LocalPort => 8000) or +die $!; while ($c = $d->accept) { while ($r = $c->get_request) { +$c->send_file_response(".".$r->url->path) } }'` [download] Actually this is a flattened and slightly modified version of `HTTP::Daemon`'s synopsis section.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Simple http server one-liner for some static files? by Anonymous Monk on Dec 31, 2014 at 01:53 UTC
Update to Re^3: After a short investigation with `corelist HTTP::Daemon` turns out that `HTTP::Daemon` is not a core-module. I confused that since my fresh installed Debian distribution already came along with that module...	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Simple http server one-liner for some static files? by Anonymous Monk on Oct 14, 2010 at 02:42 UTC
Hi, yes, I found those -- thank you. Unfortunately, neither of those modules show in their Synopses how to use them to run an http server as a one-liner. If you know how to use either to do that, could you please share?	[reply]
Re^3: Simple http server one-liner for some static files? by Anonymous Monk on Oct 14, 2010 at 09:35 UTC
It's not difficult. The "-Mxxx" option to perl loads module "xxx" and "-e" lets you supply an expression to evaluate (a command) `perl -MHTTP::Server::Brick -e '$s=HTTP::Server::Brick->new(port=>8080); $s->mount("/"=>{path=>"/tmp"}); $s->start'` This serves /tmp and its sub-directories, if you don't want that you'll want `wildcard=>0` as well as the path.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Simple http server one-liner for some static files? by Anonymous Monk on Oct 14, 2010 at 02:53 UTC
stick with what works	[reply]