support serving a directory of static files from core

[ry]

This is a very useful feature which nearly every http user needs. Optimizations to use sendfile can be done in the future. This is one of these things that is Too difficult to be outside core.

[piscisaureus]

hmm, really?

[isaacs]

Yeah, I'm kinda unconvinced on this. I mean, in practice there's so much that you need to get right, most of which is app-specific. (ETags, caching, ranges, gzipping, etc.)

It's pretty high-level.

[bnoordhuis]

It seems the consensus is that no, we're not going to add that but thanks for the input. :-)

[isaacs]

If you need this functionality: npm install st

[jfhbrook]

Shit. This looks way nicer than the static fileserving module I hacked
together. I'll have to give it a test drive.

--Josh

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Isaac Z. Schlueter <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

If you need this functionality: npm install st http://npm.im/st

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[piscisaureus]

@isaacs Nice :-)