goose is a cli-webserver intended to be a drop-in replacement for python2 -m SimpleHTTPServer. It comes with some nice things like being able to easily specify webroot. To prevent accidental exposure it also binds to 127.0.0.1 by default.

Here is some examples.

$ goose         # serve from pwd
$ goose ../root # serve from somewhere else
$ goose -p 8090 # serve on custom port

You may find the sources at https://github.com/victorhaggqvist/goose. Alternatively, goose is available from AUR.

$ pacaur -S goose-bin

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