Have fun streaming logs over http. Provide insight into system services without needing to ssh into a server.
Uses server sent events to keep the connection alive and stream the output of the log file.
In a browser, access "http://host:port/file.log" and wait for each line to be printed as it is written to the log.
Usage of ./httptail:
-addr=":2280": Addr for server
-creds="admin:password": Optional authentication credentials.
-dir="/var/log": Base directory where logs are found.
Files are served through SSL, if a cert.pem and key.pem exist in the current working directory where httptail is started.
To generate a cert and key, use openssl
openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout key.pem -out cert.pem
The BSD License http://opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php.