Disable directory listing

[jceb]

Is it possible to disable the directory listing? I'm using version 0.6.9 on Nix and the directory listing appears to be always on despite me not providing the -i flag.

[soenkehahn]

I think the -i flag means that simple-http-server will serve index.html files instead of the file listing if they exist. If they don't exist, the -i flag doesn't change anything.

I would also like to be able to disable the file listing.

Of course there's workarounds: make sure an index.html file exists and pass -i. And maybe --try-file will also achieve this? But it'd be nice to just have a cli flag.

[georgefst]

This would actually be great in conjunction with --try-file, because it would allow redirecting the root path to that file as well. Combine all that with --open and you've basically got a way to open an HTML file on the command line while also serving required static assets.