Hi, sometimes it's handy to have an easy to use file server at hand, to share a file with a friend, colleague or smartphone, provide a dummy server when developing an API or quickly view a website that requires AJAX locally [1].
I have used quark for this, but found it annoying, that I have to provide a host and port and run it as root (the noroot patch doesn't always work either, because the use of fork(2) is restricted). It seems like others have similar complaints about quark [2]. I thus looked for alternatives and found a very minimalist static file server, written in golang, called statico. I forked it, further simplified the user interface and added logging. You can find it on GitHub [3]. It doesn't require root, it's only (optional) parameter is -p for the port, supports GET and HEAD requests and even respects the Range header. Best regards, Richard Ulmer [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6923707/using-ajax-to-read-local-files [2] https://lists.suckless.org/dev/1909/33618.html [3] https://github.com/codesoap/statico
