Recently, a co-worker chided me about there being no apparent quick & easy utilities for Perl that served a directory listing over HTTP; specifically, something that matched the functionality of:

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

I perused CPAN, but found only modules that could be used to create a utility.

A couple of vim-strokes later...now there is App::dirserve. Suggestions for a better name are welcome.

It uses Mojolicious' development daemon for the work, and as such has one pre-requisite. It has a bit more functionality that t…