On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 08:59:11PM +0100, Richard Ulmer wrote: > 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]. >
You can simply build a version of quark with chroot(2) and privdrop commented out. fork(2) is not restricted, but chroot(2) and setgid(2) is. > 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's not much lines of code by itself, but it is not minimalist I think. > 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. > For port < 1024 you'd still need root or namespace priviledges usually. quark supports GET and HEAD requests and supports common byte-ranges too. > 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 > -- Kind regards, Hiltjo
