Hey y'all,

I wondered if anyone here has used or does use the python built-in http server for anything useful?

in case anyone doesn't know about how to run it, it's super simple; first navigate to a directory that contains an index.html, and then run;

(For python2):
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080

(For python3):
python3 -m http.server 8080

This will start a http server running on port 8080 and will be ready to server web pages to anyone using a browser to connect to it.

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I wondered if anyone here has used or does use the python built-in http server for anything useful?

I never knew that existed! NICE.. that could come in handy!

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I wondered if anyone here has used or does use the python built-in ht server for anything useful?

I never knew that existed! NICE.. that could come in handy!

Zylone

Yea; I dunno how much traffic it could handle, BUT that might be the simple solution to get me on port 80 w/o running as root/sudo.



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Yea; I dunno how much traffic it could handle, BUT that might be the simple solution to get me on port 80 w/o running as root/sudo.

You can't bind any ports under 1024 as a non root user

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On 20 Aug 2021, MeaTLoTioN said the following...

Yea; I dunno how much traffic it could handle, BUT that might be the simple solution to get me on port 80 w/o running as root/sudo.

You can't bind any ports under 1024 as a non root user

Why are the first 1024 ports restricted to the root user only?

Binding is an integral step for server side socket. Its like providing some address to end-user (server). So, we assign an IP address and a port number for running a server. But we can not provide any random port number to a server. The port numbers from 1 to 1023 are restricted for root user only and we can not assign those ports without having root access.

The reason behind this restriction is that most major network services like HTTP, FTP, SSH, Telnet, POP etc. runs in this range. So, if any one is allowed to run on those port, following circumstances may arise :

* An untrusted user could run a program that listened on these ports for
login (access) details.
* An untrusted user could run an unauthorized server application.


Hope this helps =)

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Yea; I dunno how much traffic it could handle, BUT that might be the simple solution to get me on port 80 w/o running as root/sudo.

You can't bind any ports under 1024 as a non root user

But I could run a python [or any] other web server as root and not mess up my Mystic session. :P

However, I saw the next post and thank you for the deets. :P You know me - I LIKE to dig a bit deeper - and always appreciate you for helping me doso.



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I've just used it for testing things mainly, nothing of production value...


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We have a few Linux based backup appliances at work, and the vendor
recommends folks using SimpleHTTPServer to download log files and what
not off the appliance if they can't use SFTP/SCP.

Only time I really use it.

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On 19 Aug 2021, MeaTLoTioN said the following...

Hey y'all,

I wondered if anyone here has used or does use the python built-in http server for anything useful?

Hey ML, Have you tried flask? It's my preferred solution for light-weight web services... that and jinja2 is really powerful... I use it on most of my raspberry pi's for various projects... It's not great for big implementations... for that I would use django or something a little more heavy duty...

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I can vouch for Flask.

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On 19 Jul 2022, seeLive said the following...

Hey ML, Have you tried flask? It's my preferred solution for
light-weight web services... that and jinja2 is really powerful... I use it on most of my raspberry pi's for various projects... It's not great
for big implementations... for that I would use django or something a little more heavy duty...

Hey seeLive, I never used flask before, until today I never heard of it in this context. What is it and how would I use it? What advantages over python's simplehttpserver would I see/have?

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