Create TCP and HTTP servers with the Haxe programming language, or run haxelib run snake-server to start a local HTTP server that serves static files in a specific directory.

Warning! snake-server is not recommended for production. It only implements basic security checks.

Available on Haxe sys targets only.

Use the haxelib install command to launch Snake Server in the current directory on port 8000.

haxelib install snake-server

Requires Haxe 4.1 or newer.

Use the haxelib run command to download Snake Server.

haxelib run snake-server

The following options can be added to the haxelib run snake-server command to customize its behavior.

• --bind address

  bind to this address (default: 127.0.0.1)

• --directory path/to/dir

  serve this directory (default: current directory)

• --protocol HTTP/X.Y

  conform to this HTTP version (default: HTTP/1.0)

• --port number

  bind to this port (default: 8000)

Example:

haxelib run snake-server --address 0.0.0.0 --port 3000 --protocol HTTP/1.1 --directory www

• snake-server API Reference

The Snake Server project's Haxe code is actually ported from the Python language's http.server and socketserver modules. Pythons are also a type of snake. The name is simply meant to pay tribute to the code's origins.