I’ve been spending time learning Go and here’s a small utility I wrote that’s similar to Python’s SimpleHTTPServer.

This utility just creates a small HTTP server serving the directory you define:

package main

import (
        "log"
        "net/http"
        "os"
)

func main() {
        if len(os.Args) < 2 {
                log.Fatal("You must enter a path")
        }
        path := os.Args[1]

        http.Handle("/", http.FileServer(http.Dir(path)))
        http.ListenAndServe(":8000", nil)
}

Then just do:

go build main.go
./serve /etc

directory