miniserve is a small, self-contained cross-platform CLI tool that allows you to just grab the binary and serve some file(s) via HTTP.
Sometimes this is just a more practical and quick way than doing things properly.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Easy to use.
- Just works: Correct MIME types handling out of the box.
- Single binary drop-in with no extra dependencies required.
- Authentication support with username and password (and hashed password).
- Mega fast and highly parallel.
- Folder download (compressed on the fly as
.tar.gzor.zip). - File uploading.
- Directory creation.
- Pretty themes (with light and dark theme support).
- Scan QR code for quick access.
- Shell completions.
- Sane and secure defaults.
- TLS (for supported architectures).
- Supports README.md rendering like on GitHub.
- Range requests.
Website: github.com/svenstaro/miniserve
Support:
Developer: Sven-Hendrik Haase
License: MIT License
miniserve is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials
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