I do this but I always get a little nervous about it being accessible to any process anywhere on that network. If the system firewall supports it, I think it would be interesting to make the http connection, and then restrict that port to existing connections only. Once you are confident only your intended client has connected, put the files in the directory.

Love this reply, giving me “Why Dropbox just rsync vibes” :)

I think croc is a superior solution here. Encrypted transfer. Automatic local peer detection. Human speakable commands. Turns off when you’re done. No firewall fiddling (and I fiddling)

Pythons web server is single threaded I believe so any simultaneously connections break.

https://github.com/schollz/croc