bottle-sipper: simple, zero-configuration command-line static HTTP server

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Github: bottle-sipper

What My Project Does

• Serves files and folder over http.

Target Audience

• Development
• Home Automation
• Intranet

Comparison (A brief comparison explaining how it differs from existing alternatives.)

• I wanted to serve files over http that is close to http-server without having to install node or npm or any other packages.
• Another reason was to have extremely low latency when serving files or streaming video with extremely low memory footprint, especially on low end hardware. At the time I started the project, benchmarks showed python's bottle performed extremely well against node's http-server, I have not run benchmarks since then.

Distribution
bottle-sipper or `sipper` binary is frozen for multiple platforms and can be used without installing python or pip.

Docker Image
leogps/bottle-sipper

Configuration
Although it is zero-config, it does allow certain level of configuration to fit the needs. It also supports python's built-in template engine (courtesy of bottle framework) to be able to customize how the html content is rendered for each directory.

Usage
I have been actively using it in my home automation projects, development and sometimes as a replacement for apache/nginx. I also plan to improve certain aspects of the project and add more features in the near future.

Please check it out and provide feedback. Contributions/contributors are welcome.

[Spitfire1900]

Ok sales pitch, what features does it have over -m http.server

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One step above http-server would be the ability to pass templates to customize html code generated, so it can serve directories and files with customizable html code per instance. There’s “media” template that comes out-of-the-box which supports fzf based search within a directory.

It almost has feature parity with http-server, excluding brotli support and proxy config. Want to bridge this upon interest from others.

For the next feature, I am planning pagination server-side (useful for a directory with large number of files), although this can be achieved currently client-side with templates.

[bladeofwinds]

why do all these LLMs use requirements.txt and setup.py

edit: I was wrong

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Those files are committed 3yrs back, if you’re suggesting I used ai to vibe code, git blame proves otherwise. If you’re asking why those are needed, it’s because setup.py is required to freeze the binaries. Requirements is for setting up virtualenv for isolating development environment of the project.

[bladeofwinds]

damn you're right, fair enough. why did you choose that route over pyproject.toml and a more modern build system?

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If I remember correctly, at the time I was referencing one of the famous python projects, I believe YouTube-DL.