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		el_benhameen on May 27, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Knod – A Tiny HTTP server for your current directo... I used SimpleHTTPServer for a while, but I found it a bit sluggish at times. I replaced SimpleHTTPServer with http-server, and I've been very pleased with its performance: https://github.com/nodeapps/http-server Not standard (or Python), but it's a quick install, and I find it just as usable and much faster.

woadwarrior01 on May 28, 2014 [–]

If you have twisted installed (which is the case on stock OSX), you can use the twisted webserver, which is a lot faster than SimpleHTTPServer and supports concurrent multiple downloads & resumes. I use this alias:

    alias twisted_web='twistd -n web --path $PWD'

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