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If in need of serving current dir over HTTP I use python -m SimpleHTTPServer works everywhere I need it to work. Anyway, kudos for making a Go project sh

by zytek 11y ago

If in need of serving current dir over HTTP I use python -m SimpleHTTPServer works everywhere I need it to work. Anyway, kudos for making a Go project shipped, which I fail to accomplish for several months now ;-)

jackyb 11y ago
I don't know why but it often takes a really long time for me to reload the web page using Python 2 and 3 on Linux. Anybody has similar experience?
- jeffreyparker 11y ago
  It can only serve one connection at a time, so if you're using it to serve a file download or have multiple users accessing it simultaneously it'll hang for all other clients.
skywhopper 11y ago
The Go server is likely faster, and it's certainly faster to type "ran" than "python -m SimpleHTTPServer".
- masklinn 11y ago
  > The Go server is likely faster Which is not usually relevant if you just want to share a file over local HTTP. If you need a production-level HTTP server, you're not using either. > it's certainly faster to type "ran" than "python -m SimpleHTTPServer". If you're smart enough to compile ran and put it on your PATH, you're probably smart enough to create an alias for `python -m SimpleHTTPServer`.
- junke 11y ago
  > ... faster ... faster It is faster to use an existing tool (python or another one) than rewriting a 2K LOC one. This is great for learning Go but the compounded time "lost" with a "slow" python server is nothing compared to the time this tool will require in development, debugging and maintenance over the years. As anyone else, I am subject to NIH and I can understand why writing one's own library is interesting by itself. Please don't invent weak excuses like "ran is faster to type".
shazow 11y ago
I love SimpleHTTPServer. I use it 80% of the time. One downside is that it's single-threaded, so if you have multiple people who need to fetch stuff from your server it can get pretty painful. I was helping run a programming workshop last week and I wrote my own tiny concurrent server in Go but in the future I think I'll just use Caddy (https://github.com/mholt/caddy https://github.com/mholt/caddy).
saintfiends 11y ago
For python 3 python -m http.server

by zytek 11y ago

jackyb 11y ago

I don't know why but it often takes a really long time for me to reload the web page using Python 2 and 3 on Linux. Anybody has similar experience?

jeffreyparker 11y ago
It can only serve one connection at a time, so if you're using it to serve a file download or have multiple users accessing it simultaneously it'll hang for all other clients.

skywhopper 11y ago

The Go server is likely faster, and it's certainly faster to type "ran" than "python -m SimpleHTTPServer".

masklinn 11y ago
> The Go server is likely faster Which is not usually relevant if you just want to share a file over local HTTP. If you need a production-level HTTP server, you're not using either. > it's certainly faster to type "ran" than "python -m SimpleHTTPServer". If you're smart enough to compile ran and put it on your PATH, you're probably smart enough to create an alias for `python -m SimpleHTTPServer`.
junke 11y ago
> ... faster ... faster It is faster to use an existing tool (python or another one) than rewriting a 2K LOC one. This is great for learning Go but the compounded time "lost" with a "slow" python server is nothing compared to the time this tool will require in development, debugging and maintenance over the years. As anyone else, I am subject to NIH and I can understand why writing one's own library is interesting by itself. Please don't invent weak excuses like "ran is faster to type".

shazow 11y ago

I love SimpleHTTPServer. I use it 80% of the time. One downside is that it's single-threaded, so if you have multiple people who need to fetch stuff from your server it can get pretty painful. I was helping run a programming workshop last week and I wrote my own tiny concurrent server in Go but in the future I think I'll just use Caddy (https://github.com/mholt/caddy https://github.com/mholt/caddy).

saintfiends 11y ago

For python 3 python -m http.server