DustMote with Snit

DustMote-Snit is developed as part of Tclssg. It adds the following new features to DustMote:

• Basic logging (to stdout);
• Content-Type;
• Custom route handlers;
• Directory listings;
• Path jailing (albeit not seriously tested for security);
• Content-Range (resumed transfers);
• TLS support;
• Every server is a Snit object;
• Multiple servers can run in the same Tcl interpreter;
• When run as the main script:
  • Command line options are processed to configure the server;
  • The server can be reloaded by accessing /reload and shut down by accessing /quit.

Known bugs and limitations:

• Canceled transfers are not logged correctly.
• Security: consider DustMote-Snit insecure and do not let it run unsupervised where you don't know who might access it.

Usage (from the command line)

usage: ./dustmote-snit.tcl -root value ?-host localhost? ?-port 8080? ?-default index.html? ?-verbose 1? ?-dirlists 1? ?-certfile public.pem? ?-keyfile private.pem? ?-tls 0?

You can use the following shell command to generate a set of temporary SSL certificates with OpenSSL:

openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout private.pem -out public.pem -subj '/CN=localhost' -days 1

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See also

• DustMote