now.js transferred as 'text/plain'?

[leiwan5]

I'm using firefox 4.0rc2. A warning "Resource interpreted as Script but transferred with MIME type text/plain." triggered when loading now.js.

[leiwan5]

sorry, it's chrome 10, not firefox

[sridatta]

Thanks for letting us know. It's added to the list of bugs to fix.

[dvv]

Frankly, there should be an option to relay serving static files to an external app (nginx?) or a middleware layer -- to say, to the code which is capable of setting etags,cache-control and so on.

For setting SERVER and PORT is in essense the same as the rendering a template, right?

[ericz]

now.js content-type 'text/plain' has been changed to 'text/javascript'

This issue is now fixed.

@dvv, we set SERVER and PORT on first request of now.js, then we cache it since it will never change in the lifetime of the service instance.
If you prefer to serve it statically using nginx etc. , simply download http://localhost:port/socket.io/socket.io.js and http://localhost:port/nowjs/now.js. Since that now.js will have the server and port already filled out, you can serve that static file without issue.

[dvv]

This still leaves unnecessary checks for certain URLs ('/nowjs/now.js') in request handlers in setups like mine where dynamic handlers stand before static ones. I mostly meant elimination of these checks. The same in socket-io itself about checking whether url is /socket.io/socket.io.js which is not switchable out and just eats ticks...