Start a temporary HTTP to serve a quick file and bail.

short_lived_file_server.py

import signal
import time
import threading

import BaseHTTPServer
import SimpleHTTPServer

start = time.time()
run_time = 60

httpd = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(('0.0.0.0', 8000), SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler)

t = threading.Thread(target=httpd.serve_forever)
t.daemon = True
t.start()

print('{address[0]}:{address[1]} - - Listening...'.format(address=httpd.server_address))

def shutdown(signum=None, frame=None):
    print('{address[0]}:{address[1]} - - Shutting down.'.format(address=httpd.server_address))
    exit(0)


signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, shutdown)
signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, shutdown)

while time.time() - start < run_time:
    time.sleep(1)

shutdown()