quickserve - easy ad-hoc file sharing

helpvampire · 2009-12-11 16:04:09

OK, thanks.

helpvampire · 2009-12-11 16:10:39

btw about that bug I found in powerpill about it downloading the packages but not running pacman I think it might be because I pressed a button while it was running and it hiden pacman's output.

Army · 2009-12-21 15:33:00

Xyne, did you also think about a server, which provides a site to upload files? I'd love to have sth like that, so others can send me files. I know there's always a security risk, but what about you combine it with quixand?

N30N · 2009-12-21 22:37:45

Another similar project is woof.

Xyne · 2009-12-21 23:19:00

@Army
That might be relatively easy to do with a multipart form. Combining it with quixand would be left to the user along with all other security concerns (plaintext file transfers, etc). I'll give this some thought when I have the time.

@N3ON
I wasn't aware of woof either, but from the description it seems "limited" to a single file.

Bob Day · 2009-12-22 12:43:26

Xyne wrote:

...
@N3ON
I wasn't aware of woof either, but from the description it seems "limited" to a single file.

Woof is indeed "limited" to a single file, if you like to transfer more files woof combines files inside directories into a tar/zip/rar/... on the fly.
In my opinion it would be really cool if quickserve could get a download-link behind the dir-listing to call woof.

hmmm, this sounds like a feature request...is that allowed? ...anyways, thanks for this fine app.

Army · 2009-12-22 13:41:45

Xyne wrote:

@Army
That might be relatively easy to do with a multipart form. Combining it with quixand would be left to the user along with all other security concerns (plaintext file transfers, etc). I'll give this some thought when I have the time.

Cool, thanks :-)

cool · 2010-01-09 17:29:47

I am using this program from past 15days and Its very useful.Good work from Developer/coder

however, I have just one request

Please make directory listing more readable currently its very difficult to view files and directories.

Firefox listing style:

quickserv listing style:

Hoping you would make it more better:D

Last edited by cool (2010-01-09 17:31:52)

FSX · 2010-01-09 22:30:51

Hey, I changed some things and added some small things.

Screenshot:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env python

# Copyright (C) 2009  Xyne
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.

# METADATA
# Version: 2.3


from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
from hashlib import md5
from mimetypes import guess_type
import os.path
from optparse import OptionParser
from urllib import quote, unquote


class QuickServeHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):

    def allow(self):
        username = options.username
        password = options.password

        if username and password:
            if 'Authorization' in self.headers and self.headers['Authorization'][:7] == 'Digest ':
                #client_username = None
                client_response = None
                #realm = None
                nonce = None

                for field in self.headers['Authorization'][7:].split(', '):
                    #if field[:10] == 'username="':
                    #    client_username = field[10:-1].replace('\"', '"')
                    #el
                    if field[:10] == 'response="':
                        client_response = field[10:-1]
                    #elif field[:7] == 'realm="':
                    #    realm = field[7:-1]
                    elif field[:7] == 'nonce="':
                        nonce = field[7:-1]

                if client_response != None and nonce != None:
                    m = md5()
                    m.update(username + ':' + self.address_string() + ':' + password)
                    ha1 = m.hexdigest()
                    m = md5()
                    m.update('GET:' + self.path)
                    ha2 = m.hexdigest()
                    m = md5()
                    m.update(ha1 + ':' + nonce + ':' + ha2)
                    response = m.hexdigest()

                    if response == client_response:
                        return True

            return False
        elif not username and not password:
            return True

        return False

    def do_GET(self):
        if not self.allow():
            self.send_response(401)
            self.send_header('WWW-Authenticate', 'Digest realm="' + self.address_string() + '"')
            self.send_header('Connection', 'close')
            self.end_headers()
            return

        global paths

        if self.path == '/':
            self.send_response(200)
            self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html; charset=UTF-8')
            self.end_headers()
            html = generate_html(None, sorted(paths.keys()))
            self.wfile.write(safe_encode_utf8(html))
            return
        else:
            splitpath = self.path[1:].split(os.sep,1)
            if splitpath[0] in paths:
                if splitpath[0] == self.path[1:]:
                    fpath = paths[splitpath[0]]
                elif len(splitpath) == 2:
                    fpath = os.path.join(paths[splitpath[0]], splitpath[1])
                else:
                    fpath = None
                if fpath:
                    fpath = unquote(fpath)
                if os.path.isfile(fpath):
                    self.transfer_file(fpath)
                    return
                elif os.path.isdir(fpath):
                    dirs, files = get_dirs_and_files(fpath)
                    html = generate_html(self.path, map(lambda x: os.path.join(self.path, x), dirs + files), True)
                    self.send_response(200)
                    self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html; charset=UTF-8')
                    self.end_headers()
                    self.wfile.write( safe_encode_utf8(html) )
                    return

        self.send_response(404)
        self.send_header('Connection', 'close')
        self.end_headers()

    def do_POST(self):
        self.send_response(403)
        self.send_header('Connection', 'close')
        self.end_headers()

    def transfer_file(self, fpath):
        self.send_response(200)
        size = os.path.getsize(fpath)
        range_start = 0
        range_end = size - 1
        mimetype = guess_type(fpath)

        if not mimetype:
            mimetype = 'application/octet-stream'

        self.send_header('Accept-Ranges', 'bytes')
        self.send_header('Content-Type', mimetype)

        if 'range' in self.headers:
            s, e = self.headers['range'][6:].split('-', 1)
            if len(s) > 0:
                range_start = int(s)
            if len(e) > 0:
                range_end = int(e)

        self.send_header('Content-Range', 'bytes ' + str(range_start) + '-' + str(range_end) + '/' + str(size))
        self.send_header('Content-Length', range_end - range_start + 1)
        self.end_headers()

        f = open(fpath, 'rb')
        f.seek(range_start, 0)
        step = 4096
        total = 0

        while step > 0:
            if range_start + step > range_end + 1:
                step = range_end - range_start + 1
            try:
                self.wfile.write(f.read(step))
            except:
                break
            total += step
            range_start += step

        f.close()


def safe_encode_utf8(text):
    try:
        return text.encode('utf-8')
    except UnicodeDecodeError:
        return text


def get_dirs_and_files(path):
    if os.path.isdir(path):
        paths = os.listdir(path)
        return sorted(filter(lambda x: os.path.isdir(os.path.join(path,x)), paths)), \
            sorted(filter(lambda x: os.path.isfile(os.path.join(path,x)), paths))
    elif os.path.isfile(path):
        return [], [os.path.basename(path)]
    else:
        return [], []


def generate_html(title, urls, backlink=False):

    if title is None:
        title = '/'
    else:
        title = title

    if backlink and title != '/':
        backlink = ' <a href="/%s">[Back]</a>' % \
            '/'.join(title.split('/')[1:-1])
    else:
        backlink = ''

    filelist_html = ''

    for url in urls:
        #url = quote(url)
        filelist_html += '''        <li><a href="%s">%s</a></li>\n''' % \
            (url, os.path.basename(url))

    if len(urls) == 0:
        filelist_html = '<li>No files found.</li>'

    return '''<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
    <title>%(title)s - Quickserve</title>
    <style type="text/css">
        html, body { background-color: #fff;padding: 0;margin: 0 }
        body { font-size: 85%%;line-height: 1.5em;color: #222;
               font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode",
                            "Lucida Sans", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif }
        #wrapper { margin: 0 auto;width: 90%% }
        h1 { font-weight: normal;color: #333;margin-bottom: 0.5em;
             font-size: 3em;line-height: 1em }
        ul { margin:0 0.5em 1.5em;padding: 0 0 2em 2.5em;
             list-style-type: square }
        h1 a { font-size: 0.5em;text-decoration: none }
    </style>
</head>
<body>

<div id="wrapper">
    <h1>%(title)s%(backlink)s</h1>
    <ul>
%(filelist)s    </ul>
</div>

</body>
</html>
''' % {'title': unquote(title), 'filelist': filelist_html, 'backlink': backlink}


def main(address='localhost', port=8080):
    try:
        server = HTTPServer((address, port), QuickServeHandler)
        print 'Started httpserver on %s:%d...' % (address, port)
        server.serve_forever()
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        print '^C received, shutting down server'
        server.socket.close()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    myname = 'quickserve'
    parser = OptionParser(description='%s - a simple HTTP server for quickly'
                                      ' sharing files' % myname,
                          usage='%s [options] [paths]' % myname)
    parser.add_option('-b', '--bind', dest='address', default='',
                      action='store',
                      help='Bind the server to this address. By default the'
                           'server will listen on all interfaces.')
    parser.add_option('-p', '--port', dest='port', default=8080, type='int',
                      action='store',
                      help='Set the server port (default: 8080)')
    parser.add_option('-u', '--username', dest='username', action='store',
                      help='Set authentication username.')
    parser.add_option('--password', dest='password', action='store',
                      help='Set authentication password.')
    (options, args) = parser.parse_args()

    global paths, username, password

    username = options.username
    password = options.password
    paths = {}

    for a in args:
        a = os.path.abspath(a)
        paths[os.path.basename(a)] = a

    main(options.address, options.port)

Xyne · 2010-01-09 23:24:26

I've just finished adding sizes and mtimes, along with the link to the parent directory. I'll have a look at what FSX has added and merge anything that I find useful.

*edit*

I've merged some of FSX's changes into Quickserve (inclusion of DOCTYPE string, some CSS styles, inclusion of header, name of parent directory link).

Thanks, FSX.

Last edited by Xyne (2010-01-10 01:09:20)

Pnevma · 2010-01-10 03:32:20

It doesn't seem to play nice with folders that have spaces in their names. But besides that, it's great.

I'm using the latest revision and haven't tried any of the previous ones.

----------------------------------------
----------------------------------------
Exception happened during processing of request from ('192.168.1.100', 53860)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/SocketServer.py", line 281, in _handle_request_noblock
    self.process_request(request, client_address)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/SocketServer.py", line 307, in process_request
    self.finish_request(request, client_address)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/SocketServer.py", line 320, in finish_request
    self.RequestHandlerClass(request, client_address, self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/SocketServer.py", line 615, in __init__
    self.handle()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/BaseHTTPServer.py", line 329, in handle
    self.handle_one_request()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/BaseHTTPServer.py", line 323, in handle_one_request
    method()
  File "/usr/bin/quickserve", line 104, in do_GET
    html = get_html(self.path, dirs + files)
  File "/usr/bin/quickserve", line 198, in get_html
    stat = os.stat(upath)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '//home/timothy/Misc/Music/Albums/Carbon%20Based%20Lifeforms/Hydroponic Garden'

Xyne · 2010-01-10 03:43:56

@Pnevma
Too bad that you didn't try the previous version... the space bug was introduced in the last update. I missed an "unquote" when changing around one of the functions.

Please try the latest version and confirm that it works.

Last edited by Xyne (2010-01-10 03:44:07)

Pnevma · 2010-01-10 03:53:14

Yeah, that's what I figured

I just tried the new version and can confirm that it's fixed. Thanks!

Xyne · 2010-01-10 04:07:06

Thanks for reporting the bug and confirming the fix.

makimaki · 2010-01-10 12:37:36

@Xyne thank you for your great work. I used to use abyss to serve data file, but your tool is perfect

DarkVenger · 2010-01-13 19:32:12

I used the already mentioned - woof - to simple share stuff in my LAN. But now quickserve surpassed it due to folder sharing and authorization. Thanks a lot Xyne!

UnDisbeliever · 2010-01-13 22:39:41

I've been using ArchLinux for a while now and it's about time I get into the whole community of it all.

Xyne, I don't know how this sounds (I've kinda been awake too long), but I had this nagging feeling that something was missing from your script. So in the spirit of late morning coffee binges, I toyed with it and fixed two bugs that I noticed; (allow() was using options instead of the global variables; and that nothing was shared there are no command line options).

These updates add two new options that I think would be appricated;
-r which generates a random username and password, allowing for increased psuedo-security. And
-d displays the URL of the quickserv server to the screen. This url includes the authentication data, and I have found it useful when sharing the URL over IM (especially when combining it with -r).

Quick preview of the new features look like thus;

undisbeliever@deadlocked ~/src $ ./quickserve -rd
Username: NoxXGUnD
Password: WzDewkZy
http://NoxXGUnD:WzDewkZy@deadlocked:8080/
started httpserver on :8080...

Take the changes, or leave your code as-is. I was mainly doing this to gain experience in going through and working with someone elses code (something they don't really teach you at univeristy, along with proper coding semantics).

#!/usr/bin/env python

# Copyright (C) 2009  Xyne
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.

# METADATA
# Version: 2.4.2

from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
from hashlib import md5
from mimetypes import guess_type
import os.path
from optparse import OptionParser
from time import gmtime,strftime
from urllib import unquote
from socket import gethostname
import string
import random

class MyHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):

  def allow(self):
    global username, password
    if username and password:
      if 'Authorization' in self.headers and self.headers['Authorization'][:7] == 'Digest ':
        #client_username = None
        client_response = None
        #realm = None
        nonce = None
        for field in self.headers['Authorization'][7:].split(', '):
          #if field[:10] == 'username="':
          #  client_username = field[10:-1].replace('\"', '"')
          #el
          if field[:10] == 'response="':
            client_response = field[10:-1]
          #elif field[:7] == 'realm="':
          #  realm = field[7:-1]
          elif field[:7] == 'nonce="':
            nonce = field[7:-1]
        if client_response != None and nonce != None:
          m = md5()
          m.update(username + ':' + self.address_string() + ':' + password)
          ha1 = m.hexdigest()
          m = md5()
          m.update('GET:' + self.path)
          ha2 = m.hexdigest()
          m = md5()
          m.update(ha1 + ':' + nonce + ':' + ha2)
          response = m.hexdigest()
          if response == client_response:
            return True
      return False
    elif not username and not password:
      return True
    else:
      return False
      

  def do_GET(self):
    if not self.allow():
      self.send_response(401)
      self.send_header('WWW-Authenticate', 'Digest realm="' + self.address_string() + '"')
      self.send_header('Connection', 'close')
      self.end_headers()
      return

    global paths

    if self.path == '/':
      self.send_response(200)
      self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html; charset=UTF-8')
      self.end_headers()
      html = get_html(self.path, sorted(paths.keys()))
      self.wfile.write( safe_encode_utf8(html) )
      return
    else:
      splitpath = self.path[1:].split(os.sep,1)
      if splitpath[0] in paths:
        if splitpath[0] == self.path[1:]:
          fpath = paths[splitpath[0]]
        elif len(splitpath) == 2:
          fpath = os.path.join(paths[splitpath[0]], splitpath[1])
        else:
          fpath = None
        if fpath:
          fpath = unquote(fpath)
        if os.path.isfile(fpath):
          self.transfer_file(fpath)
          return
        elif os.path.isdir(fpath):
          dirs, files = get_dirs_and_files(fpath)
          html = get_html(self.path, dirs + files)
          self.send_response(200)
          self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html; charset=UTF-8')
          self.end_headers()
          self.wfile.write( safe_encode_utf8(html) )
          return
            
    self.send_response(404)
    self.send_header('Connection', 'close')
    self.end_headers()


  def do_POST(self):
    self.send_response(403)
    self.send_header('Connection', 'close')
    self.end_headers()
  
  
  def transfer_file(self,fpath):
    self.send_response(200)
    size = os.path.getsize(fpath)
    range_start = 0
    range_end = size - 1
    mimetype = guess_type(fpath)
    if not mimetype:
      mimetype = 'application/octet-stream'
    self.send_header('Accept-Ranges', 'bytes')
    self.send_header('Content-Type', mimetype)

    if 'range' in self.headers:
      s, e = self.headers['range'][6:].split('-', 1)
      if len(s) > 0:
        range_start = int(s)
      if len(e) > 0:
        range_end = int(e)

    self.send_header('Content-Range', 'bytes ' + str(range_start) + '-' + str(range_end) + '/' + str(size))
    self.send_header('Content-Length', range_end - range_start + 1)
    self.end_headers()

    f = open(fpath, 'rb')
    f.seek(range_start, 0)
    step = 4096
    total = 0
    while step > 0:
      if range_start + step > range_end + 1:
        step = range_end - range_start + 1
      try:
        self.wfile.write(f.read(step))
      except:
        break
      total += step
      range_start += step
    f.close()


def safe_encode_utf8(text):
  try:
    return text.encode('utf-8')
  except UnicodeDecodeError:
    return text

def get_dirs_and_files(path):
  if os.path.isdir(path):
    paths = os.listdir(path)
    return sorted(filter(lambda x: os.path.isdir(os.path.join(path,x)), paths)), sorted(filter(lambda x: os.path.isfile(os.path.join(path,x)), paths))
  elif os.path.isfile(path):
    return [], [os.path.basename(path)]
  else:
    return [], []



def get_html(path,contents):
  global paths
  path = unquote(path)
  i = path.find('/',1)
  if i > 0:
    root = path[1:i]
  else:
    root = path[1:]
  if root != '':
    backlink = '<a href="%s">[Back]</a>' % ('/' + path[1:].rpartition('/')[0])
  else:
    backlink = ''
  
  filelist_html = "<table>\n<tr><th>File</th><th>Size</th><th>Last Modified (GMT)</th></tr>\n"
  for c in contents:
    if root != '':
      upath = path.replace(root, paths[root]) + '/' + c
      href = path + '/' + c
    else:
      upath = paths[c]
      href = '/' + c
      
    stat = os.stat(upath)
    gm_time = gmtime(stat.st_mtime)
    str_time = strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", gm_time)
    if os.path.isdir(upath):
      c += '/'
      size = ''
    else:
      size = format_size(stat.st_size)
    
    filelist_html += '<tr><td><a href="' + href + '">' + c + '</a></td><td class="alignr">' + size + '</td><td>' + str_time + "</td></tr>\n"
  filelist_html += "</table>\n"

  html = '''<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
  <title>%(title)s - Quickserve</title>
  <style type="text/css">
      html, body { background-color: #fff;padding: 0;margin: 0 }
      body { font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode",
                          "Lucida Sans", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif }
      #wrapper { margin: 0 auto;width: 90%% }
      h1 { font-weight: normal; color: #333; margin-bottom: 0.5em;
           font-size: 2.5em; line-height: 1em }
      h1 a { font-size: 0.5em; text-decoration: none; margin-left: 1em; }
      table { font-family: monospace; border-spacing:10px 4px; margin-bottom: 5em }
      th { text-align: left }
      .alignr { text-align: right }
  </style>
</head>

<div id="wrapper">
<h1>%(title)s%(backlink)s</h1>
%(filelist)s
</div>

</body>
''' % {'title': unquote(path), 'filelist': filelist_html, 'backlink': backlink}

  return html



def format_size(size):
  s = ' B'
  if size > 1000:
    size /= 1000.0
    s = 'kB'
  if size > 1000:
    size /= 1000.0
    s = 'MB'
  if size > 1000:
    size /= 1000.0
    s = 'GB'
  if size > 1000:
    size /= 1000.0
    s = 'TB'
  return "%.02f %s" % (size,s)


def create_random_password(chars=string.ascii_letters, len=8):
  global username, password
  username = "".join(random.choice(chars) for x in range(len))
  password = "".join(random.choice(chars) for x in range(len))

  print 'Username:', username
  print 'Password:', password

def server_url(address=None, port=8080):
  global username, password
  if address is None or address is '':
      address = gethostname()
  if not username and not password:
    return 'http://%s:%d/' % (address, port)
  else:
    return 'http://%s:%s@%s:%d/' % (username, password, address, port)


def main(address='localhost', port=8080):
  try:
    server = HTTPServer((address, port), MyHandler)
    print 'started httpserver on %s:%d...' % (address, port)
    server.serve_forever()
  except KeyboardInterrupt:
    print '^C received, shutting down server'
    server.socket.close()



if __name__ == '__main__':
  myname = 'quickserve'
  parser = OptionParser(description=myname + ' - a simple HTTP server for quickly sharing files', usage=myname + ' [options] [paths]')
  parser.add_option("-b", "--bind", dest="address", default='', action="store",
                    help='Bind the server to this address. By default the server will listen on all interfaces.')
  parser.add_option("-p", "--port", dest="port", default=8080, type="int", action="store",
                    help='Set the server port (default: 8080)')
  parser.add_option("-u", "--username", dest="username", action="store",
                    help='Set authentication username.')
  parser.add_option("--password", dest="password", action="store",
                    help='Set authentication password.')
  parser.add_option("-r", "--random", dest="random_password", default=False, action="store_true",
                    help='Use a randomly generated authentication username and password. Overrides --username and --password.')
  parser.add_option("-d", "--display-url", dest="display_url", default=False, action="store_true",
                    help='Displays the URL of the web server (including authentication). Useful for when commuicating over IM.')
  (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
    
  global paths, username, password
  username = options.username
  password = options.password

  if options.random_password :
    create_random_password()
 
  if options.display_url :
    print server_url(options.address, options.port) 

  paths = {}
  for a in args:
    a = os.path.abspath(a)
    paths[os.path.basename(a)] = a
  if len(paths) == 0:
    a = os.getcwd()
    paths[os.path.basename(a)] = a

  main(options.address, options.port)

Army; as for the file uploading idea, there is a python script that could be modified to do this (http://fragments.turtlemeat.com/pythonwebserver.php). I've had some experience using python to create a HTTP_POST dummy server. I could probably add this option to quickserv if Xyne doesn't mind.

EDIT: I forgot to give you my thanks for creating this script. I've used it quite a few times in the last weekend and it working wondeerfully for my needs.

Last edited by UnDisbeliever (2010-01-13 22:48:37)

moose jaw · 2010-01-14 16:37:27

To add to the chorus of thanks: I just discovered quickserve and it's wonderful. Thanks!!!

Ape · 2010-01-16 08:07:07

I'd like to have it share the current folder when quickserve is ran without path parameters.

Xyne · 2010-01-16 09:29:59

Ape wrote:

I'd like to have it share the current folder when quickserve is ran without path parameters.

So you want to be able to do

quickserve

because

 quickserve .

is too much to type?

Ape · 2010-01-16 09:43:46

Xyne wrote:

Ape wrote:
I'd like to have it share the current folder when quickserve is ran without path parameters.
So you want to be able to do
quickserve
because
 quickserve .
is too much to type?

You are absolutely right there.

Xyne · 2010-01-16 10:10:40

I'm reluctant to do that because it poses a slight security risk as it makes it easier to accidentally share a directory, which is potentially dangerous. It also adds a few lines to the code, all just to save 2 characters of typing which could easily be aliased in your .bashrc (alias quickserve="/usr/bin/quickserve .").

Sorry, but I don't think I'll implement that.

Ape · 2010-01-16 10:22:34

Xyne wrote:

Sorry, but I don't think I'll implement that.

Well I understand your point, but this was the command I tried first. I somehow thought that it would serve the current folder. Currently it outputs this:

$ quickserve 
started httpserver on :8080...

Maybe you should make it more informative and say something like this:

$ quickserve 
usage: quickserve [path for sharing]

Also when I start the command with folder share and add or remove the files within, quickserve doesn't see the changes.

Xyne · 2010-01-16 10:48:38

Ok, it now prints out the help message and exits when run without any paths. It also lists what it's serving when started.

toad · 2010-01-16 11:22:28

toad@deskarch 981\12 ~ > quickserve
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/quickserve", line 293, in <module>
    main(options.address, options.port)
  File "/usr/bin/quickserve", line 263, in main
    server = HTTPServer((address, port), MyHandler)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/SocketServer.py", line 400, in __init__
    self.server_bind()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/BaseHTTPServer.py", line 108, in server_bind
    SocketServer.TCPServer.server_bind(self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/SocketServer.py", line 411, in server_bind
    self.socket.bind(self.server_address)
  File "<string>", line 1, in bind
socket.error: [Errno 98] Address already in use

??

I then tried to upgrade:

  -> Downloading quickserve-2.5.tar.gz...
--2010-01-16 12:20:37--  http://xyne.archlinux.ca/src/quickserve-2.5.tar.gz
Resolving xyne.archlinux.ca... 69.89.25.172
Connecting to xyne.archlinux.ca|69.89.25.172|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 10102 (9.9K) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `quickserve-2.5.tar.gz.part'

100%[=========================================================================================================================>] 10,102      25.1K/s   in 0.4s

2010-01-16 12:20:38 (25.1 KB/s) - `quickserve-2.5.tar.gz.part' saved [10102/10102]

==> Validating source files with md5sums...
    quickserve-2.5.tar.gz ... FAILED
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!
Error: Makepkg was unable to build quickserve package.

Error: unable to update quickserve

 Following packages have not been installed:
quickserve

toad@deskarch 982\14 ~ >

Is it just me or something else?

Arch Linux

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