httpipe

Pipes stuff to HTTP. That simple.

Compiling

Just cd to the src directory and issue

make

To install httpipe on your system, you may (as root) issue

make install

If you would like httpipe compiled in a package, there's a PKGBUILD for Arch Linux in the AUR at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/httpipe-git/

Usage

If you want to pipe a file to HTTP you would just run:

httpipe < your_file.html

Then to get your content, via curl for instance, you would run on a client (5000 is the default port where httpipe works):

curl -O http://your_host_goes_here:5000

Other fun commands you may do:

cal | httpipe                 # outputs a calendar
httpipe <<< Hello World       # outputs the string Hello world
httpipe -f video.avi          # streams a video via HTTP

If you run httpipe by itself, you may input manually the data you want to serve. To end piping data, place an EOF (by making Ctrl-D).