Rather than just the text, for the file/folder name itself, the link should be of a larger html element so that there is more to click. It should also have a hover effect that highlights what you are over so it's clear

cargo install https on Ubuntu gives me a

error: failed to run custom build command for `openssl v0.9.24`                                     
process didn't exit successfully: `/tmp/cargo-installbaFa52/release/build/openssl-28365257436483ab/build-script-build` (exit code: 101)
--- stderr
thread 'main' panicked at 'Unable to detect OpenSSL version', /home/zelda/.cargo/registry/src/github.
com-1ecc6299db9ec823/openssl-0.9.24/build.rs:16:14
note: Run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace.

Feature request: Ability to stream videos from random positions in the middle.

Expected behaviour

• Share a directory containing a big(ish) video file;
• Connect to the server with a browser (It should better be from a computer different than the one hosting the server to add some network latency);
• Click the video name; The browser will start loading and displaying the video;
• You will notice in the video progress-bar that the browser shows how much it has pre-fetched (downloaded);
• Jump (by clicking/tapping in the progress-bar) to a position in the video that is not loaded yet;
• The browser should start displaying the video from that position.

Observed behaviour

Jumping to the middle doesn't work with and without the -e flag. I tested it in my mobile's Firefox with a >2h video. It can't jump to positions that are not loaded:

• I can jump to positions in the video that was already loaded or pre-fetched by firefox. This is always the case with small files and when I use Firefox from the same laptop as the server since the file is ~instantly downloaded.
• What I can't do is jump to a position which is not yet loaded. For example, when I open a 2hours long video, it starts from 0h00. if I try to jump to 1h00, it will fail to do so and it will jump instead to 1min xy seconds (or wherever the download is so far).

From inspecting what http headers are sent when firefox tries to jump to a not-loaded position in this youtube video (the link should die soon), firefox sends few video-specific http-options, and the server responds respectively:

1st Request
===========

Host: r5---sn-hgn7zn7s.googlevideo.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0
Accept: video/webm,video/ogg,video/*;q=0.9,application/ogg;q=0.7,audio/*;q=0.6,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Range: bytes=7798784-
Referer: https://r5---sn-hgn7zn7s.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?key=cms1&gir=yes&mime=video%2Fmp4&requiressl=yes&ratebypass=yes&dur=346.046&lmt=1484123052879736&source=youtube&clen=15053869&id=o-ANabftMGPfGu6vXOHu9TF_px2mY-v7HUAwzfaC8UZLYb&expire=1484193348&ei=46l2WM2VOsfycuTGo9AN&pl=17&ipbits=0&ip=41.109.236.221&sparams=clen,dur,ei,expire,gir,id,initcwndbps,ip,ipbits,itag,lmt,mime,mm,mn,ms,mv,nh,pl,ratebypass,requiressl,source,upn&signature=5C096A27A1D5D53A18742D85F324ECF71C482C2E.6D9B3D096D2DF27DDB8B2B677050721D92743F76&itag=18&upn=OURRDchDiSI&cmbypass=yes&redirect_counter=1&req_id=b284bf5a3f79a3ee&cms_redirect=yes&mm=30&mn=sn-hgn7zn7s&ms=nxu&mt=1484171710&mv=m&nh=IgpwcjAyLm1yczAyKg8yMTMuMTQ0LjE3Ni4yMjA
DNT: 1
Connection: keep-alive


1st response
============

Accept-Ranges: bytes
Alt-Svc: quic=":443"; ma=2592000
Cache-Control: private, max-age=21234
Connection: close
Content-Length: 7255085
Content-Range: bytes 7798784-15053868/15053869
Content-Type: video/mp4
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 21:56:54 GMT
Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 21:56:54 GMT
Last-Modified: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 08:24:12 GMT
Server: gvs 1.0
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

Middle request
==============

Host: r5---sn-hgn7zn7s.googlevideo.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0
Accept: video/webm,video/ogg,video/*;q=0.9,application/ogg;q=0.7,audio/*;q=0.6,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Range: bytes=11075584-
Referer: https://r5---sn-hgn7zn7s.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?key=cms1&gir=yes&mime=video%2Fmp4&requiressl=yes&ratebypass=yes&dur=346.046&lmt=1484123052879736&source=youtube&clen=15053869&id=o-ANabftMGPfGu6vXOHu9TF_px2mY-v7HUAwzfaC8UZLYb&expire=1484193348&ei=46l2WM2VOsfycuTGo9AN&pl=17&ipbits=0&ip=41.109.236.221&sparams=clen,dur,ei,expire,gir,id,initcwndbps,ip,ipbits,itag,lmt,mime,mm,mn,ms,mv,nh,pl,ratebypass,requiressl,source,upn&signature=5C096A27A1D5D53A18742D85F324ECF71C482C2E.6D9B3D096D2DF27DDB8B2B677050721D92743F76&itag=18&upn=OURRDchDiSI&cmbypass=yes&redirect_counter=1&req_id=b284bf5a3f79a3ee&cms_redirect=yes&mm=30&mn=sn-hgn7zn7s&ms=nxu&mt=1484171710&mv=m&nh=IgpwcjAyLm1yczAyKg8yMTMuMTQ0LjE3Ni4yMjA
DNT: 1
Connection: keep-alive


Response
========
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Alt-Svc: quic=":443"; ma=2592000
Cache-Control: private, max-age=21214
Connection: close
Content-Length: 3978285
Content-Range: bytes 11075584-15053868/15053869
Content-Type: video/mp4
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 21:57:14 GMT
Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 21:57:14 GMT
Last-Modified: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 08:24:12 GMT
Server: gvs 1.0
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

src/util/os/non_windows_non_macos.rs:39:47

mismatched type

error[E0308]: mismatched types
  --> src/util/os/non_windows_non_macos.rs:39:47
   |
39 |             let ok = unsafe { ioctl(dev_file, BLKGETSIZE, &mut block_count as *mut c_ulong) } == 0;
   |                                               ^^^^^^^^^^ expected `i32`, found `u64`

I change it to this:

let ok = unsafe { ioctl(dev_file, BLKGETSIZE as i32, &mut block_count as *mut c_ulong) } == 0;

can't find ssl/crypto

= note: rust-lld: error: unable to find library -lssl
        rust-lld: error: unable to find library -lcrypto

OS: CentOS 7.8 x86_64 I have installed the openssl-devel.x86_64 and openssl-static.x86_64 library. Compile Command:

CC=x86_64-linux-musl-gcc cargo build --release --target=x86_64-unknown-linux-musl

Currently, last modification time is always displayed in GMT+0 which is a little confusing. I think that we should either:

• Write "xx-xx-xx xx:xx:xx (GMT)" to clarify, or
• Display time in the timezone of the client.

Some kind of authentication could be nice.

My use case for this software is to allow people to get or upload a file on my LAN or with the internet. I would run the program just for a couple of minutes.

In my case it would be cool to have http generate a random token (maybe with expiration if people run http 24/24).

I have a folder with the following files

• bootstrap.js
• projectname_bg.js
• projectname_bg.wasm
• projectname_bg.wasm.d.ts
• projectname.d.ts
• projectname.js
• index.html
• index.js

When I run http, it does start up a server and when you visit localhost:8000, it gives you the following files

• index.html
• bootstrap.js
• projectname.js
• index.js

I do want those to be sent, this is good. It's not sending the .d.ts files, this is good. The probelm is it's not sending projectname_bg.wasm and projectname_bg.js. I understand it not sending projectname_bg.js, since it doesn't seemed to be called in anywhere. Idk why wasm-pack made it. But projectname_bg.wasm does get called in in projectname.js. The wasm file isn't being sent, and it should be.

While other solutions (miniserve) works fine. Maybe related to there are too many "icons" on the page (in httplz each line has some image icons).

Test on firefox, chromium and vivaldi on linux.

If the server can't secure the desired port, it should start to increment one at a time until it finds a free port to listen on. This can loop around from max port back to the lowest port that doesn't require privilege escalation. If it loops back to the starting port, it should print an error message and quit

Can you write an URL to access the server to the console during startup? Other local servers do that, for example Jekyll or wasm-pack test, and modern terminals support clicking on that URL to open a browser window.

Nice pretty colours are pretty and nice. Some sort of highlighting should be added. The different elements of the log messages should be highlighted individually. For ease of understand what is going on with the colours, they should be defined in one concise location

I couldn't figure out how cross-platform symlinks work. It states under features:

Good symlink handling compatible with Windows

I simply used ls -s, but the creates symlink only worked on Linux and MacOS. Using the usual shortcut creation on Windows, didn't work at all, not on Windows and, as expected, not on Linux or MacOS.

Is there something I'm missing? I couldn't find documentation on it in any case.

Running cargo audit on the repository reports 4 known vulnerabilities in the dependency tree:

Crate:         brotli-sys
Version:       0.3.2
Title:         Integer overflow in the bundled Brotli C library
Date:          2021-12-20
ID:            RUSTSEC-2021-0131
URL:           https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0131
Solution:      No safe upgrade is available!
Dependency tree: 
brotli-sys 0.3.2
└── brotli2 0.3.2
    └── https 1.12.2

Crate:         hyper
Version:       0.10.16
Title:         Integer overflow in `hyper`'s parsing of the `Transfer-Encoding` header leads to data loss
Date:          2021-07-07
ID:            RUSTSEC-2021-0079
URL:           https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0079
Solution:      Upgrade to >=0.14.10
Dependency tree: 
hyper 0.10.16
├── rfsapi 0.1.0
│   └── https 1.12.2
├── iron 0.6.1
│   └── https 1.12.2
└── hyper-native-tls 0.3.0
    ├── iron 0.6.1
    └── https 1.12.2

Crate:         hyper
Version:       0.10.16
Title:         Lenient `hyper` header parsing of `Content-Length` could allow request smuggling
Date:          2021-07-07
ID:            RUSTSEC-2021-0078
URL:           https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0078
Solution:      Upgrade to >=0.14.10

Crate:         time
Version:       0.1.43
Title:         Potential segfault in the time crate
Date:          2020-11-18
ID:            RUSTSEC-2020-0071
URL:           https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0071
Solution:      Upgrade to >=0.2.23
Dependency tree: 
time 0.1.43
├── rfsapi 0.1.0
│   └── https 1.12.2
├── hyper 0.10.16
│   ├── rfsapi 0.1.0
│   ├── iron 0.6.1
│   │   └── https 1.12.2
│   └── hyper-native-tls 0.3.0
│       ├── iron 0.6.1
│       └── https 1.12.2
└── https 1.12.2

error: 4 vulnerabilities found!

Hello,

Do you think it's possible to add a redirection option for a path/subpath ?

Expected:

http --redirect /some:http://localhost:4000

Thanks, Marc-Antoine

Rather than just a scrolling log of what actions are requested... perhaps a swish console could be started that can show the status of things like what folder is being hosted, where temp files are, the progress of any ongoing transfers.

This may be more than should be done in this project, perhaps a separate project can wrap this one to provide this console mode