curlbomb 1.0.5

A personal HTTP server for serving one-time-use bash scripts

A personal HTTP server for serving one-time-use bash scripts (think installers)

You know all those docs for cool dev tools that start out by telling you to install their software in one line, like this?

bash <(curl -s http://example.com/install.sh)

I call that a curl bomb… I don’t know if anyone else does.

This script is an HTTP server that will serve that script to a client exactly once and then quit. Yea, you could just use “python -m http.server”, really this is just a bit more than that.

Usage

usage: curlbomb.py [-h] [-k] [-n NUM_GETS] [-p PORT] [--ssl CERTIFICATE] [--mime-type MIME_TYPE] FILE

positional arguments:
  FILE                  File to serve

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -k, --disable-knock   Don't require authentication (no X-knock header)
                        (default: False)
  -n NUM_GETS           Number of times to serve resource (default: 1)
  -p PORT               TCP port number to use (default: random)
  --ssl CERTIFICATE     Use SSL with the given certificate (default: None)
  --mime-type MIME_TYPE
                        The content type to serve the file as (default:
                        text/plain)