From 855828d15cdeea343ba499071c14caaeeec19dab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josh Toft <joshtoft@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 21:32:11 -0700
Subject: Make example README's more thorough

---
 examples/static/README.md | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)

(limited to 'examples/static/README.md')

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!
+```
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