[erlang-questions] Cowboy static file handler example

Loïc Hoguin essen@REDACTED
Sun Apr 27 19:54:23 CEST 2014


What's your browser, and did you try a different browser?

On 04/25/2014 07:53 PM, lloyd@REDACTED wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The Cowboy static file handler example contains two demos: plain text file and HTML5 video. The plain text file demo works fine on my system; HTML5 video demo returns a blank screen.
>
> In effort to understand why, I created a plain-vanilla HTML file with a single headline tag. This also returned a blank screen.
>
> Evidently the server can't find the *.html file in the priv dir:
>
> lloyd@REDACTED:~$ curl -i http://localhost:8080/test.html
> HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
> connection: keep-alive
> server: Cowboy
> date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 17:48:57 GMT
> content-length: 0
> content-type: text/html
>
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 lloyd lloyd 383631 Apr 25 13:23 small.mp4
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 lloyd lloyd 872453 Apr 25 13:24 small.ogv
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 lloyd lloyd     84 Apr 25 13:48 test.html
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 lloyd lloyd     52 Apr 25 12:52 test.txt
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 lloyd lloyd  19753 Apr 25 13:17 tree.jpg
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 lloyd lloyd 106622 Apr 25 13:16 tree.png
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 lloyd lloyd    315 Apr 25 13:24 video.html
>
> If I list the priv dir, test.html shows up, as does test.txt. But the server finds test.txt, but not test.html.
>
> Am I doing something wrong? Or is there a problem with the Cowboy example code?
>
> Thanks,
>
> LRP
>
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