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As far as quick 'n dirty solutions go, if you're not overly concerned with security, you can always use "python -m SimpleHTTPServer" to serve all the files on the current directory over HTTP.

I also recall that KDE had a panel applet that pretty much did the same thing on the 3.x days (not sure it's been ported to 4.x)

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Do not forget that this solution is inherently mono-threaded and does not benefits from a proper concurrency model like node.js for example (which is also mono-threaded by "design" but provide non blocking IO).

So for big files with multiple downloaders, it can be sometimes not as good as you want it to be.

But at that point you're hosting a file server, not just sending a 25mb file to a friend. Out of scope.

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