{"id":67,"date":"2022-02-23T01:21:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T01:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/im8bit.com\/?p=67"},"modified":"2022-03-21T17:02:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T17:02:56","slug":"mini-server-using-netcat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/im8bit.com\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"Mini server using netcat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was trying to run some tests with lighthouse and was looking for the most simple webserver that I could get just to check what the report would look like, so I didn’t want to run apache locally or a simple nodejs or python script I was looking for the most bare bones thing that I could find and I ended up thinking about netcat and sure enough, it did the job, if you are ever looking for a simple webserver and you don’t want to install the whole thing for whatever reason you can just use this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

while true; do echo -e \"HTTP\/1.1 200 OK\\r\\n\\n$(date)\" | nc -vlN 8080; done<\/strong><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
This of course will return the date if you visit localhost:8080 but you can change it to do more complex stuff or maybe return the content of a real HTML file, the sky is the limit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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