It also cannot serve 6,000 requests per second out of the box.
It threw me a module not found error twice - once for `eyes` and once for `colors`
I ran it on a directory and tested it with `ab -n 100 -c 5 localhost:8080/`.
Concurrency Level: 5
Time taken for tests: 0.046 seconds
Complete requests: 100
Failed requests: 0
Write errors: 0
Total transferred: 175900 bytes
HTML transferred: 149900 bytes
Requests per second: 2159.97 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 2.315 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 0.463 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 3710.33 [Kbytes/sec] received
EDIT: `ab -n 15000 -c 5 localhost:8080/` is about 3000 req/s on my machine for http-server; 2200 for SimpleHTTPServer.
`python - SimpleHTTPServer 8080` gave me 1800 requests/second.
As far as configuration goes, for a dev server(that's what both SimpleHTTPServer and http-server are for me), the only configurations I do is to change the port.
Also, it's not like http-server is a highly configurable http server and framework combined into one - I for one can live without auto-index on/off.
Should fix [dist] issues. I have a feeling you need to update your npm to version 1.0 as well.
I can think of use cases for wanting to be able to serve >1,000 requests a second.
I can't think of any that fall into both categories ... am I just lacking imagination?
luckily if you have twisted installed, you can run "twistd web -n -p PORT --path ." it's just as easy as the basic HTTP server but way faster.
It ships with sane defaults so you can type "http-server", but it also may optionally be configured with things like a path, a port, a host, etc.