I found myself wanting to dump some PDFs on my Kobo Forma ebook reader. But I didn't feel like digging out my USB-C to USB-A adapter so I could plug in the cable and use Calibre to transfer the books.
Hmm... well, the reader does have a rudimentary browser... I wonder if I could just download the books via HTTP or FTP on my wireless LAN?
So I found a way to do it.
First, fire up terminal and navigate to the directory that contains the files you want to serve.
Then run python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
and Bob's your Uncle.
(I found sudo apachectl start
as well, which runs an apache server, but I like the python thing better.)
P.S. You can CMD-N to open a second terminal window, then use the command ifconfig en0 inet
to get the IP of your server.
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