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authorLoïc Hoguin <[email protected]>2012-10-01 11:42:40 -0700
committerLoïc Hoguin <[email protected]>2012-10-01 11:42:40 -0700
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Merge pull request #269 from seryl/patch-1
Fixing recursive examples README
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@@ -16,3 +16,29 @@ You can then start the Erlang node with the following command:
Cowboy will serve all the files you put in the priv/ directory.
You can replace the filename given in the example URL with the
one of a file you added to this directory to receive that file.
+
+Example
+-------
+
+Show that the file is returned as an octet-stream
+
+``` bash
+$ curl -i http://localhost:8080/test.txt
+HTTP/1.1 200 OK
+connection: keep-alive
+server: Cowboy
+date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:19:40 GMT
+content-length: 52
+Content-Type: application/octet-stream
+Last-Modified: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:01:20 GMT
+
+If you read this then the static file server works!
+```
+
+Finally download and cat the file to verify
+
+``` bash
+$ curl -sLO http://localhost:8080/test.txt
+$ cat test.txt
+If you read this then the static file server works!
+```