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Asked for an HTTPS one liner on stackoverflow a while back and got this answer:

    ruby -r webrick/https -e '
      WEBrick::HTTPServer.new(
        Port: 8000, DocumentRoot: ".",
        SSLEnable: true, SSLCertName: [%w[CN localhost]]).start'

https://stackoverflow.com/a/37986354/59325

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openssl can also do it. no dirlisting though.

    openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout /tmp/key.pem -out /tmp/cert.pem -nodes && openssl s_server -WWW -port 8443 -cert /tmp/cert.pem -key /tmp/key.pem

Caddy is brilliant for this task.

For reference the HTTPS one-liner with Caddy [1] would be:

    caddy file-server --domain example.com

And similarly for HTTPS reverse proxy:

    caddy reverse-proxy --from example.com --to localhost:9000

[1]: https://caddyserver.com/

This plus hosts file can be a quick way to test secure cookies, secure headers, etc.

You could also tunnel any of the http servers through socat ssl-l.

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