Serving Files with NetCat
Explore how to use NetCat with shell scripting to serve text files and web pages. Understand looping commands to listen on a port and craft HTTP responses for browsers. Practice sending files and web content using simple CLI tools for networking tasks.
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Using NetCat with scripting
We can use netcat to serve files if we combine it with a little bit of shell scripting. Let’s create a file called hello.txt with some text:
$ echo "This is a text file served from netcat" > hello.txt
Now, we execute this command to make netcat listen for connections on port 8000 and serve ...