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by commadelimited 5070 days ago
Citnoven...

I appreciate you taking the time not only to read the post, but to offer your opinion and corrections to my article. I've updated those two mistakes you pointed out.

As I understand it, SimpleHTTPServer offers basic functionality to the user, which is all I use it for...a quick way to view pages using AJAX requests. I attempted to use http.server instead, but as I'm not running Python 3.0 I'm not able to use that option. Since Lion ships with Python 2.7, and many people are using that OS, I felt safe leaving the reference in place.

I do run the server function myself, many times a day in fact, but I made the mistake of typing it in manually rather than copying and pasting from my .zshrc file.

This post isn't intended for hackers, thus the title "...for the novice". The comments I've received about the article thus far, most likely from people not as advanced as yourself, have been positive and appreciative for the information. I'd love to hear some of the tools that improve your workflow daily...would you care to share them?