miniquark - a minimal web server for retrieving files

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MINIQUARK(1) General Commands Manual MINIQUARK(1)

NAME

miniquark — a minimal web server for retrieving files

SYNOPSIS

miniquark −p port [−h host] [−d dir]

DESCRIPTION

miniquark is a web server supporting GET/HEAD requests and is easily launched as unprivileged user to provide HTTP access a local directory.

The options are as follows:

−p port

The port to listen on for incoming connections.

−d dir

Switch to the specified directory.

−h host

Set the hostname or IP address to listen on. The default is 127.0.0.1.

If run with a user ID of 0, miniquark will chroot to the current directory.

FEATURES

The following request headers are recognized

Range:

Returns 206 Partial Content and the Content-Range header is set.

If-Modified-Since:

Returns 304 Not Modified or "200 OK" based on the file timestamp.

User-Agent:

Used for log messages.

HISTORY

miniquark was based on https://git.suckless.org/quark and bundled with rset(1) in July 2020. GNU February 6, 2025 MINIQUARK(1)

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