I have been playing with python lately and discovered at least two small utility pacages providing useful features in combination with the commandline. For this reason I created two aliases:
alias openurl='python3 -m webbrowser -t'
alias webshare='python -m SimpleHTTPServer'
The first one opens a web page at the url given as a parameter, if the url does not have a protocol, e.g. http, then the command will interpret it as a local file. The second one starts a webserver for the directory where the command is called. Then you can provide in that way a simple mean of letting someone download local files.