Display SVG graphics properly when serving files with WEBrick

[turboroot]

I wanted to make some changes to the site, but letting Jekyll serve the files locally through WEBrick displays broken images. SVGs are not given the correct content-type.

Jekyll's fix seems to be in the next release. This will be a temporary fix.

Hopefully others won't run into the same issue.

[saivann]

jekyll --server cannot be used correctly right now anyway, because the site uses clean urls and jekyll WebRick server doesn't translate urls to filenames. (/en/about -> /en/about.html). So I think it would make sense to fix this problem first. Otherwise adding SVG support won't help so much.

Do you have any idea how (or if) it can be done?

[turboroot]

Jekyll can generate a directory with a single index.html (en/about -> en/about/index.html) for each page so that those paths would route cleanly without the aid of github's pretty urls.

[saivann]

Isn't there a feature somewhere in WebRick server to handle this gracefully?

Most servers allow to do url to filename translation pretty easily. At a first glance, I'd say having a ton of index files seems a bit hackish. It might cause troubles with relative paths and would add a trailing / at the end of all urls. And we should try to avoid changing urls as much as possible.

Maybe the answer can be found somewhere in there :
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/webrick/rdoc/WEBrick/Config.html

[saivann]

So far from what I read, it seems that it requires patching the WebRick server.. Ugh.. Ok so let's merge your improvement and keep cleanurls as a seperate subject. Thanks!