NAME

miniquark — a minimal web server for retrieving files

SYNOPSIS

miniquark -p port [-h host] [-d dir]

miniquark is a web server supporting GET/HEAD requests and is easily launched as unprivileged user to provide HTTP access a local directory.

The options are as follows:

-p port: The port to listen on for incoming connections.
-d dir: Switch to the specified directory.
-h host: Set the hostname or IP address to listen on. The default is 127.0.0.1.

If run with a user ID of 0, miniquark will chroot to the current directory.

The following request headers are recognized

Range:: Returns 206 Partial Content and the Content-Range header is set.
If-Modified-Since:: Returns 304 Not Modified or "200 OK" based on the file timestamp.
User-Agent:: Used for log messages.

miniquark was based on https://git.suckless.org/quark and bundled with rset(1) in July 2020.