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author | Josh Toft <[email protected]> | 2012-09-27 21:32:11 -0700 |
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committer | Josh Toft <[email protected]> | 2012-10-01 10:37:24 -0700 |
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Make example README's more thorough
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diff --git a/examples/static/README.md b/examples/static/README.md index a9b9f5b..ef46312 100644 --- a/examples/static/README.md +++ b/examples/static/README.md @@ -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! +``` |