Everything in the directory that python -m http.server is run in, will be shared.
Open a web browser to http://127.0.0.1:8000 on the same machine, and you will see the contents of the directory.

It is a http server, not a https server.

Thanks!
however it is amazing that it can work even without root permissions. How is it possible?

Port 8000 is not a privileged port. See here for more information: https://www.w3.org/Daemon/User/Insta...egedPorts.html

wget can do recursive retrieval very easily with most protocols actually. It simply has to have a server to connect to. Http is one method though it works with most protocols (http, https, ftp, sftp, and many others). 'man wget' for more info.

If you have the sshd daemon running rsync is also a reliable tool for quick file transfers to & from a remote host.

If you start a web server on 172.16.0.2, port 8100, and share a directory of files,

On a second machine on the LAN
Will get everything in the directory that you shared on 172.16.0.2:8100