AsHttp - Shell Command to Expose any other Command as HTTP


ashttp provide a simple way to expose any shell command by HTTP. For example, to expose top by HTTP, try : ashttp -p8080 top ; then try http://localhost:8080.

Dependencies

ashttp depends on hl_vt100, a headless VT100 emulator.
To get and compile hl_vt100 :
$ git clone https://github.com/JulienPalard/vt100-emulator.git
$ aptitude install python-dev
$ make python_module
$ python setup.py install

Usage

ashttp can serve any text application over HTTP, like :
$ ashttp -p 8080 top
to serve a top on port 8080
$ ashttp -p 8080 watch -n 1 ls -lah /tmp

to serve an actualized directory listing of /tmp


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