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@willurd
willurd / web-servers.md
Last active August 5, 2025 00:46
Big list of http static server one-liners

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

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Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
@cjgiridhar
cjgiridhar / request.py
Created August 7, 2012 17:07
Tornado - Secure Cookies
import httplib2
h = httplib2.Http()
response, content = h.request("http://127.0.0.1:8888/user/", "GET")
print"HTTP GET request"
print "Reponse:", response, "\nContent:", content, "\nCookie:", response['set-cookie']
## Resending the request with cookie with headers
headers = {"Cookie":response['set-cookie']}
response_2, content_2 = h.request("http://127.0.0.1:8888/user/", "GET", headers = headers)
print "\nResending the request with cookie in headers"
@i-scorpion
i-scorpion / README.txt
Created June 18, 2012 12:24
Twitter bootstrap fixed table header using jQuery
Here is a simple jQuery plugin to make a table header fixed on top when window is scrolled.
Using the code from twitter bootstrap documentation page, this code is customized for table header.
Create the table with following layout -
<table class="table-fixed-header">
<thead class="header">
<tr>
<th>Column 1</th>
<th>Column 2</th>
<th>Column 3</th>
@FSX
FSX / tornado_thread_pool.py
Created May 2, 2012 16:02
A simple thread pool for Tornado.
#!/usr/bin/env python
# Thread pool based on: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577187-python-thread-pool/
from queue import Queue
from threading import Thread
from functools import partial
import tornado.httpserver
import tornado.ioloop
import tornado.options
@jlong
jlong / uri.js
Created April 20, 2012 13:29
URI Parsing with Javascript
var parser = document.createElement('a');
parser.href = "http://example.com:3000/pathname/?search=test#hash";
parser.protocol; // => "http:"
parser.hostname; // => "example.com"
parser.port; // => "3000"
parser.pathname; // => "/pathname/"
parser.search; // => "?search=test"
parser.hash; // => "#hash"
parser.host; // => "example.com:3000"
@erikh
erikh / hack.sh
Created March 31, 2012 07:02 — forked from DAddYE/hack.sh
OSX For Hackers
#!/usr/bin/env sh
##
# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
#
# install it:
# curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh | sh
#
@hmcfletch
hmcfletch / ColorHelper.h
Created January 23, 2012 05:59
A bunch of objective-c color helpers
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h>
// generate a UIColor from rgb and alpha values
#define RGBA(r, g, b, a) [UIColor colorWithRed:r/255.0 green:g/255.0 blue:b/255.0 alpha:a]
#define RGB(r, g, b) RGBA(r, g, b, 1.0)
// generate a UIColor
#define GRAYSCALEA(rgb, a) RGBA(rgb, rgb, rgb, a)
#define GRAYSCALE(rgb) GRAYSCALEA(rgb, 1.0)
// generate a UIColor from a hex and an alpha value
@jimbojsb
jimbojsb / gist:1630790
Created January 18, 2012 03:52
Code highlighting for Keynote presentations

Step 0:

Get Homebrew installed on your mac if you don't already have it

Step 1:

Install highlight. "brew install highlight". (This brings down Lua and Boost as well)

Step 2:

@caseyohara
caseyohara / reserved_usernames.rb
Created December 9, 2011 22:58
A list of reserved usernames to avoid vanity URL collision with resource paths
# A list of possible usernames to reserve to avoid
# vanity URL collision with resource paths
# It is a merged list of the recommendations from this Quora discussion:
# http://www.quora.com/How-do-sites-prevent-vanity-URLs-from-colliding-with-future-features
# Country TLDs found here:
# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains#Country_code_top-level_domains
# Languages found here:
@kristofferh
kristofferh / git-export
Created December 7, 2011 13:01
"Export" a git repository to zip file
git archive --format zip --output /full/path/to/zipfile.zip master