{"id":1649,"date":"2010-01-06T06:21:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T11:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/g33kinfo.com\/info\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2010-01-06T06:21:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T11:21:50","slug":"woof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g33kinfo.com\/info\/woof\/","title":{"rendered":"Woof"},"content":{"rendered":"

Woof<\/tt> is a small simple webserver that can easily be invoked on a single file. A client can access the file with tools he trusts (e.g.\u00a0wget<\/tt>). No need to enter passwords on keyboards where you don’t know about keyboard sniffers, no need to start a huge lot of infrastructure, just do a
\n$ woof filename<\/code>
\nand tell the recipient the URL\u00a0woof<\/tt> spits out. When he got that file,\u00a0woof<\/tt> will quit and everything is done.<\/p>\n

And when someone wants to send you a file,\u00a0woof<\/tt> has a switch to offer itself, so he can get\u00a0woof<\/tt> and offer a file to you.<\/p>\n

Prerequisites and usage<\/h3>\n

Woof<\/tt> needs Python on a unix’ish operating system. Some people have used it successfully on Windows within the cygwin environment.
\n Usage: woof [-i <ip_addr>] [-p <port>] [-c <count>] <file>
\n woof [-i <ip_addr>] [-p <port>] [-c <count>] [-z|-j|-Z|-u] <dir>
\n woof [-i <ip_addr>] [-p <port>] [-c <count>] -s
\n woof [-i <ip_addr>] [-p <port>] [-c <count>] -U<\/p>\n

Serves a single file <count> times via http on port <port> on IP
\n address <ip_addr>.
\n When a directory is specified, an tar archive gets served. By default
\n it is gzip compressed. You can specify -z for gzip compression,
\n -j for bzip2 compression, -Z for ZIP compression or -u for no compression.
\n You can configure your default compression method in the configuration
\n file described below.<\/p>\n

When -s is specified instead of a filename, woof distributes itself.<\/p>\n

When -U is specified, woof provides an upload form and allows uploading files.<\/p>\n

defaults: count = 1, port = 8080<\/p>\n

You can specify different defaults in two locations: \/etc\/woofrc
\n and ~\/.woofrc can be INI-style config files containing the default
\n port and the default count. The file in the home directory takes
\n precedence. The compression methods are “off”, “gz”, “bz2” or “zip”.<\/p>\n

Sample file:<\/p>\n

[main]
\n port = 8008
\n count = 2
\n ip = 127.0.0.1
\n compressed = gz<\/p>\n

Download<\/h3>\n
  • woof<\/a> \u2013 2009-12-27:<\/span> Upload functionality, quite some code cleanup.<\/li>\n
  • woof<\/a> \u2013 2009-02-27: minor fix.<\/li>\n
  • woof<\/a> \u2013 2009-02-17: support for zip (without temp files!).<\/li>\n
  • woof<\/a> \u2013 2009-02-13: support for bz2, no dependency on an external “tar”.<\/li>\n
  • woof<\/a> \u2013 2007-01-20: ancient woof version.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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