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+# Simple File Server
+The simple file server is a tiny server application to serve files to another machine. Files are provided by HTTP. Thus, these files can be downloaded by any browser as well as tools as e.g. `wget` and `curl`.
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+Attention: This application is intended for internal usage. Therefore, an implementation of e.g. Let's Encrypt for HTTPS was intentionally omitted. **Please do not use this application on the public Internet.**
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+# Credits
+This application uses the library [Cobra](https://github.com/spf13/cobra) for the command line parsing.
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+Icons are provided by [Icons8](https://icons8.com). 
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