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Sometimes it can be very handy to download/navigate some files from the server without altering current web server configuration or setup of additional services.
Python default module SimpleHTTPServer allows to do it very easy:

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cd /home

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python -m SimpleHTTPServer

Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ...
localhost - - [29/Apr/2011 12:28:33] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 -
localhost - - [29/Apr/2011 12:28:33] code 404, message File not found
localhost - - [29/Apr/2011 12:28:33] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 -
localhost - - [29/Apr/2011 12:28:34] "GET /dir/ HTTP/1.1" 200 -

If the directory has a file named index.html, that file will be served as the initial file. Otherwise directory listing will be displayed.
Default listen port/interface can be set as:

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python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080 192.168.1.1

For Python 3.x:

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python -m http.server