Is it possible to run python SimpleHTTPServer on localhost only?

Question

I have a vpn connection and when I\'m running python -m SimpleHTTPServer, it serves on 0.0.0.0:8000, which means it can be accessed via localhost and via my

Answer 1

As @sberry explained, simply doing it by using the nice python -m ... method won't be possible, because the IP address is hardcoded in the implementation of the BaseHttpServer.test function.

A way of doing it from the command line without writing code to a file first would be

python -c 'import BaseHTTPServer as bhs, SimpleHTTPServer as shs; bhs.HTTPServer(("127.0.0.1", 8888), shs.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler).serve_forever()'

If that still counts as a one liner depends on your terminal width ;-) It's certainly not very easy to remember.