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<h1 class="lined-header"><span>Static files</span></h1>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Cowboy comes with a ready to use handler for serving static
-files. It is provided as a convenience for serving files
-during development.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>For systems in production, consider using one of the many
-Content Distribution Network (CDN) available on the market,
-as they are the best solution for serving files.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>The static handler can serve either one file or all files
-from a given directory. The etag generation and mime types
-can be configured.</p></div>
-<div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="_serve_one_file">Serve one file</h2>
-<div class="sectionbody">
-<div class="paragraph"><p>You can use the static handler to serve one specific file
-from an application&#8217;s private directory. This is particularly
-useful to serve an <em>index.html</em> file when the client requests
-the <code>/</code> path, for example. The path configured is relative
-to the given application&#8217;s private directory.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>The following rule will serve the file <em>static/index.html</em>
-from the application <code>my_app</code>'s priv directory whenever the
-path <code>/</code> is accessed:</p></div>
-<div class="listingblock">
-<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 3.1.8
-by Lorenzo Bettini
-http://www.lorenzobettini.it
-http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
-<pre><tt>{<span style="color: #FF0000">"/"</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">cowboy_static</span>, {<span style="color: #FF6600">priv_file</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">my_app</span>, <span style="color: #FF0000">"static/index.html"</span>}}</tt></pre></div></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>You can also specify the absolute path to a file, or the
-path to the file relative to the current directory:</p></div>
-<div class="listingblock">
-<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 3.1.8
-by Lorenzo Bettini
-http://www.lorenzobettini.it
-http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
-<pre><tt>{<span style="color: #FF0000">"/"</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">cowboy_static</span>, {<span style="color: #FF6600">file</span>, <span style="color: #FF0000">"/var/www/index.html"</span>}}</tt></pre></div></div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="_serve_all_files_from_a_directory">Serve all files from a directory</h2>
-<div class="sectionbody">
-<div class="paragraph"><p>You can also use the static handler to serve all files that
-can be found in the configured directory. The handler will
-use the <code>path_info</code> information to resolve the file location,
-which means that your route must end with a <code>[...]</code> pattern
-for it to work. All files are served, including the ones that
-may be found in subfolders.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>You can specify the directory relative to an application&#8217;s
-private directory.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>The following rule will serve any file found in the application
-<code>my_app</code>'s priv directory inside the <code>static/assets</code> folder
-whenever the requested path begins with <code>/assets/</code>:</p></div>
-<div class="listingblock">
-<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 3.1.8
-by Lorenzo Bettini
-http://www.lorenzobettini.it
-http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
-<pre><tt>{<span style="color: #FF0000">"/assets/[...]"</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">cowboy_static</span>, {<span style="color: #FF6600">priv_dir</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">my_app</span>, <span style="color: #FF0000">"static/assets"</span>}}</tt></pre></div></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>You can also specify the absolute path to the directory or
-set it relative to the current directory:</p></div>
-<div class="listingblock">
-<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 3.1.8
-by Lorenzo Bettini
-http://www.lorenzobettini.it
-http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
-<pre><tt>{<span style="color: #FF0000">"/assets/[...]"</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">cowboy_static</span>, {<span style="color: #FF6600">dir</span>, <span style="color: #FF0000">"/var/www/assets"</span>}}</tt></pre></div></div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="_customize_the_mimetype_detection">Customize the mimetype detection</h2>
-<div class="sectionbody">
-<div class="paragraph"><p>By default, Cowboy will attempt to recognize the mimetype
-of your static files by looking at the extension.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>You can override the function that figures out the mimetype
-of the static files. It can be useful when Cowboy is missing
-a mimetype you need to handle, or when you want to reduce
-the list to make lookups faster. You can also give a
-hard-coded mimetype that will be used unconditionally.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Cowboy comes with two functions built-in. The default
-function only handles common file types used when building
-Web applications. The other function is an extensive list
-of hundreds of mimetypes that should cover almost any need
-you may have. You can of course create your own function.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>To use the default function, you should not have to configure
-anything, as it is the default. If you insist, though, the
-following will do the job:</p></div>
-<div class="listingblock">
-<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 3.1.8
-by Lorenzo Bettini
-http://www.lorenzobettini.it
-http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
-<pre><tt>{<span style="color: #FF0000">"/assets/[...]"</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">cowboy_static</span>, {<span style="color: #FF6600">priv_dir</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">my_app</span>, <span style="color: #FF0000">"static/assets"</span>,
- [{<span style="color: #FF6600">mimetypes</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">cow_mimetypes</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">web</span>}]}}</tt></pre></div></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>As you can see, there is an optional field that may contain
-a list of less used options, like mimetypes or etag. All option
-types have this optional field.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>To use the function that will detect almost any mimetype,
-the following configuration will do:</p></div>
-<div class="listingblock">
-<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 3.1.8
-by Lorenzo Bettini
-http://www.lorenzobettini.it
-http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
-<pre><tt>{<span style="color: #FF0000">"/assets/[...]"</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">cowboy_static</span>, {<span style="color: #FF6600">priv_dir</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">my_app</span>, <span style="color: #FF0000">"static/assets"</span>,
- [{<span style="color: #FF6600">mimetypes</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">cow_mimetypes</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">all</span>}]}}</tt></pre></div></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>You probably noticed the pattern by now. The configuration
-expects a module and a function name, so you can use any
-of your own functions instead:</p></div>
-<div class="listingblock">
-<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 3.1.8
-by Lorenzo Bettini
-http://www.lorenzobettini.it
-http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
-<pre><tt>{<span style="color: #FF0000">"/assets/[...]"</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">cowboy_static</span>, {<span style="color: #FF6600">priv_dir</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">my_app</span>, <span style="color: #FF0000">"static/assets"</span>,
- [{<span style="color: #FF6600">mimetypes</span>, <span style="color: #009900">Module</span>, <span style="color: #009900">Function</span>}]}}</tt></pre></div></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>The function that performs the mimetype detection receives
-a single argument that is the path to the file on disk. It
-is recommended to return the mimetype in tuple form, although
-a binary string is also allowed (but will require extra
-processing). If the function can&#8217;t figure out the mimetype,
-then it should return <code>{&lt;&lt;"application"&gt;&gt;, &lt;&lt;"octet-stream"&gt;&gt;, []}</code>.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>When the static handler fails to find the extension,
-it will send the file as <code>application/octet-stream</code>.
-A browser receiving such file will attempt to download it
-directly to disk.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Finally, the mimetype can be hard-coded for all files.
-This is especially useful in combination with the <code>file</code>
-and <code>priv_file</code> options as it avoids needless computation:</p></div>
-<div class="listingblock">
-<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 3.1.8
-by Lorenzo Bettini
-http://www.lorenzobettini.it
-http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
-<pre><tt>{<span style="color: #FF0000">"/"</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">cowboy_static</span>, {<span style="color: #FF6600">priv_file</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">my_app</span>, <span style="color: #FF0000">"static/index.html"</span>,
- [{<span style="color: #FF6600">mimetypes</span>, {<span style="color: #990000">&lt;&lt;</span><span style="color: #FF0000">"text"</span><span style="color: #990000">&gt;&gt;</span>, <span style="color: #990000">&lt;&lt;</span><span style="color: #FF0000">"html"</span><span style="color: #990000">&gt;&gt;</span>, []}}]}}</tt></pre></div></div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="_generate_an_etag">Generate an etag</h2>
-<div class="sectionbody">
-<div class="paragraph"><p>By default, the static handler will generate an etag header
-value based on the size and modified time. This solution
-can not be applied to all systems though. It would perform
-rather poorly over a cluster of nodes, for example, as the
-file metadata will vary from server to server, giving a
-different etag on each server.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>You can however change the way the etag is calculated:</p></div>
-<div class="listingblock">
-<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 3.1.8
-by Lorenzo Bettini
-http://www.lorenzobettini.it
-http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
-<pre><tt>{<span style="color: #FF0000">"/assets/[...]"</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">cowboy_static</span>, {<span style="color: #FF6600">priv_dir</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">my_app</span>, <span style="color: #FF0000">"static/assets"</span>,
- [{<span style="color: #FF6600">etag</span>, <span style="color: #009900">Module</span>, <span style="color: #009900">Function</span>}]}}</tt></pre></div></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>This function will receive three arguments: the path to the
-file on disk, the size of the file and the last modification
-time. In a distributed setup, you would typically use the
-file path to retrieve an etag value that is identical across
-all your servers.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>You can also completely disable etag handling:</p></div>
-<div class="listingblock">
-<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 3.1.8
-by Lorenzo Bettini
-http://www.lorenzobettini.it
-http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
-<pre><tt>{<span style="color: #FF0000">"/assets/[...]"</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">cowboy_static</span>, {<span style="color: #FF6600">priv_dir</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">my_app</span>, <span style="color: #FF0000">"static/assets"</span>,
- [{<span style="color: #FF6600">etag</span>, <span style="color: #000080">false</span>}]}}</tt></pre></div></div>
-</div>
-</div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Cowboy comes with a ready to use handler for serving static
+files. It is provided as a convenience for serving files
+during development.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>For systems in production, consider using one of the many
+Content Distribution Network (CDN) available on the market,
+as they are the best solution for serving files.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>The static handler can serve either one file or all files
+from a given directory. The etag generation and mime types
+can be configured.</p></div>
+<div class="sect1">
+<h2 id="_serve_one_file">Serve one file</h2>
+<div class="sectionbody">
+<div class="paragraph"><p>You can use the static handler to serve one specific file
+from an application&#8217;s private directory. This is particularly
+useful to serve an <em>index.html</em> file when the client requests
+the <code>/</code> path, for example. The path configured is relative
+to the given application&#8217;s private directory.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>The following rule will serve the file <em>static/index.html</em>
+from the application <code>my_app</code>'s priv directory whenever the
+path <code>/</code> is accessed:</p></div>
+<div class="listingblock">
+<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 3.1.8
+by Lorenzo Bettini
+http://www.lorenzobettini.it
+http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
+<pre><tt>{<span style="color: #FF0000">"/"</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">cowboy_static</span>, {<span style="color: #FF6600">priv_file</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">my_app</span>, <span style="color: #FF0000">"static/index.html"</span>}}</tt></pre></div></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>You can also specify the absolute path to a file, or the
+path to the file relative to the current directory:</p></div>
+<div class="listingblock">
+<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 3.1.8
+by Lorenzo Bettini
+http://www.lorenzobettini.it
+http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
+<pre><tt>{<span style="color: #FF0000">"/"</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">cowboy_static</span>, {<span style="color: #FF6600">file</span>, <span style="color: #FF0000">"/var/www/index.html"</span>}}</tt></pre></div></div>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="sect1">
+<h2 id="_serve_all_files_from_a_directory">Serve all files from a directory</h2>
+<div class="sectionbody">
+<div class="paragraph"><p>You can also use the static handler to serve all files that
+can be found in the configured directory. The handler will
+use the <code>path_info</code> information to resolve the file location,
+which means that your route must end with a <code>[...]</code> pattern
+for it to work. All files are served, including the ones that
+may be found in subfolders.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>You can specify the directory relative to an application&#8217;s
+private directory.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>The following rule will serve any file found in the application
+<code>my_app</code>'s priv directory inside the <code>static/assets</code> folder
+whenever the requested path begins with <code>/assets/</code>:</p></div>
+<div class="listingblock">
+<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 3.1.8
+by Lorenzo Bettini
+http://www.lorenzobettini.it
+http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
+<pre><tt>{<span style="color: #FF0000">"/assets/[...]"</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">cowboy_static</span>, {<span style="color: #FF6600">priv_dir</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">my_app</span>, <span style="color: #FF0000">"static/assets"</span>}}</tt></pre></div></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>You can also specify the absolute path to the directory or
+set it relative to the current directory:</p></div>
+<div class="listingblock">
+<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 3.1.8
+by Lorenzo Bettini
+http://www.lorenzobettini.it
+http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
+<pre><tt>{<span style="color: #FF0000">"/assets/[...]"</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">cowboy_static</span>, {<span style="color: #FF6600">dir</span>, <span style="color: #FF0000">"/var/www/assets"</span>}}</tt></pre></div></div>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="sect1">
+<h2 id="_customize_the_mimetype_detection">Customize the mimetype detection</h2>
+<div class="sectionbody">
+<div class="paragraph"><p>By default, Cowboy will attempt to recognize the mimetype
+of your static files by looking at the extension.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>You can override the function that figures out the mimetype
+of the static files. It can be useful when Cowboy is missing
+a mimetype you need to handle, or when you want to reduce
+the list to make lookups faster. You can also give a
+hard-coded mimetype that will be used unconditionally.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Cowboy comes with two functions built-in. The default
+function only handles common file types used when building
+Web applications. The other function is an extensive list
+of hundreds of mimetypes that should cover almost any need
+you may have. You can of course create your own function.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>To use the default function, you should not have to configure
+anything, as it is the default. If you insist, though, the
+following will do the job:</p></div>
+<div class="listingblock">
+<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 3.1.8
+by Lorenzo Bettini
+http://www.lorenzobettini.it
+http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
+<pre><tt>{<span style="color: #FF0000">"/assets/[...]"</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">cowboy_static</span>, {<span style="color: #FF6600">priv_dir</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">my_app</span>, <span style="color: #FF0000">"static/assets"</span>,
+ [{<span style="color: #FF6600">mimetypes</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">cow_mimetypes</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">web</span>}]}}</tt></pre></div></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>As you can see, there is an optional field that may contain
+a list of less used options, like mimetypes or etag. All option
+types have this optional field.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>To use the function that will detect almost any mimetype,
+the following configuration will do:</p></div>
+<div class="listingblock">
+<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 3.1.8
+by Lorenzo Bettini
+http://www.lorenzobettini.it
+http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
+<pre><tt>{<span style="color: #FF0000">"/assets/[...]"</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">cowboy_static</span>, {<span style="color: #FF6600">priv_dir</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">my_app</span>, <span style="color: #FF0000">"static/assets"</span>,
+ [{<span style="color: #FF6600">mimetypes</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">cow_mimetypes</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">all</span>}]}}</tt></pre></div></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>You probably noticed the pattern by now. The configuration
+expects a module and a function name, so you can use any
+of your own functions instead:</p></div>
+<div class="listingblock">
+<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 3.1.8
+by Lorenzo Bettini
+http://www.lorenzobettini.it
+http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
+<pre><tt>{<span style="color: #FF0000">"/assets/[...]"</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">cowboy_static</span>, {<span style="color: #FF6600">priv_dir</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">my_app</span>, <span style="color: #FF0000">"static/assets"</span>,
+ [{<span style="color: #FF6600">mimetypes</span>, <span style="color: #009900">Module</span>, <span style="color: #009900">Function</span>}]}}</tt></pre></div></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>The function that performs the mimetype detection receives
+a single argument that is the path to the file on disk. It
+is recommended to return the mimetype in tuple form, although
+a binary string is also allowed (but will require extra
+processing). If the function can&#8217;t figure out the mimetype,
+then it should return <code>{&lt;&lt;"application"&gt;&gt;, &lt;&lt;"octet-stream"&gt;&gt;, []}</code>.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>When the static handler fails to find the extension,
+it will send the file as <code>application/octet-stream</code>.
+A browser receiving such file will attempt to download it
+directly to disk.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Finally, the mimetype can be hard-coded for all files.
+This is especially useful in combination with the <code>file</code>
+and <code>priv_file</code> options as it avoids needless computation:</p></div>
+<div class="listingblock">
+<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 3.1.8
+by Lorenzo Bettini
+http://www.lorenzobettini.it
+http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
+<pre><tt>{<span style="color: #FF0000">"/"</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">cowboy_static</span>, {<span style="color: #FF6600">priv_file</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">my_app</span>, <span style="color: #FF0000">"static/index.html"</span>,
+ [{<span style="color: #FF6600">mimetypes</span>, {<span style="color: #990000">&lt;&lt;</span><span style="color: #FF0000">"text"</span><span style="color: #990000">&gt;&gt;</span>, <span style="color: #990000">&lt;&lt;</span><span style="color: #FF0000">"html"</span><span style="color: #990000">&gt;&gt;</span>, []}}]}}</tt></pre></div></div>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="sect1">
+<h2 id="_generate_an_etag">Generate an etag</h2>
+<div class="sectionbody">
+<div class="paragraph"><p>By default, the static handler will generate an etag header
+value based on the size and modified time. This solution
+can not be applied to all systems though. It would perform
+rather poorly over a cluster of nodes, for example, as the
+file metadata will vary from server to server, giving a
+different etag on each server.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>You can however change the way the etag is calculated:</p></div>
+<div class="listingblock">
+<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 3.1.8
+by Lorenzo Bettini
+http://www.lorenzobettini.it
+http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
+<pre><tt>{<span style="color: #FF0000">"/assets/[...]"</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">cowboy_static</span>, {<span style="color: #FF6600">priv_dir</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">my_app</span>, <span style="color: #FF0000">"static/assets"</span>,
+ [{<span style="color: #FF6600">etag</span>, <span style="color: #009900">Module</span>, <span style="color: #009900">Function</span>}]}}</tt></pre></div></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>This function will receive three arguments: the path to the
+file on disk, the size of the file and the last modification
+time. In a distributed setup, you would typically use the
+file path to retrieve an etag value that is identical across
+all your servers.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>You can also completely disable etag handling:</p></div>
+<div class="listingblock">
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+<pre><tt>{<span style="color: #FF0000">"/assets/[...]"</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">cowboy_static</span>, {<span style="color: #FF6600">priv_dir</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">my_app</span>, <span style="color: #FF0000">"static/assets"</span>,
+ [{<span style="color: #FF6600">etag</span>, <span style="color: #000080">false</span>}]}}</tt></pre></div></div>
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