Hey HN, I made a small tool whose sole purpose it is to very quickly serve some files via HTTP when that is all you need. I know there are similar tools like that. For instance, darkhttpd which is kind of hard to grab on Windows in a hurry or `python -m http.server` but then you Python installed.
So I made a small tool in Rust with actix-web which you can just quickly grab the binary of and run it and then have a simple but very fast local web server serving some files with correct MIME types.
I personally needed this in a corporate environment to share some files in an otherwise Windows-based network that normally had people share files via some ungodly IBM/MS tools.
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I personally needed this in a corporate environment to share some files in an otherwise Windows-based network that normally had people share files via some ungodly IBM/MS tools.
Hopefully somebody finds this helpful.