Nasus HTTP Server

A simple zero-configuration command-line HTTP files server. Like Python's SimpleHTTPServer but scalable. Сan easily handle thousands of simultaneous connections.

Implemented in Clojure with Aleph and Netty. Mostly as an example. It's still skillful and handy tho'. There's even nothing wrong with putting it to production.

Usage

Run in the directory you want to serve:

clj -Sdeps '{:deps {nasus {:mvn/version "0.1.7"}}}' -m http.server

Or specify custom port:

clj -Sdeps '{:deps {nasus {:mvn/version "0.1.7"}}}' -m http.server 8001

Features

• Plain text & HTML directory listings based on "Accept" header
• Automatic mime-type detection
• Streaming and chunked encoding for large files
• Keep-alive and slow requests handling
• Transparent content compression (gzip, deflate)
• Cache control and "Last-Modified"
• CORS headers

In development:

• Range queries support
• SSL/TLS
• List of files & directories to exclude from serving

Flags

  -p, --port <PORT>         8000        Port number
  -b, --bind <IP>           0.0.0.0     Address to bind to
      --dir <PATH>          ./          Directory to serve files
      --auth <USER[:PASSWORD]>          Basic auth
      --no-index                        Disable directory listings
      --no-cache                        Disable cache headers
      --no-compression                  Disable deflate and gzip compression
      --follow-symlink                  Enable symbolic links support
      --include-hidden                  Process hidden files as normal
      --cors                            Support Acccess-Control-* headers, see --cors-* options for more fine-grained control
      --cors-origin                     Acccess-Control-Allow-Origin response header value
      --cors-methods                    Acccess-Control-Allow-Methods response header value
      --cors-allow-headers              Acccess-Control-Allow-Headers response header value
      --index-document-path <PATH>      When requesting "dir/", respond with "dir/<PATH>" instead of a listing
  -h, --help

License

Copyright © 2020 Nasus

Nasus is licensed under the MIT license, available at MIT and also in the LICENSE file.