Dat: ability to view html file without extension

[aaronshaf]

Is there a way to tell Beaker to treat foo as foo.html? Thanks!

[aaronshaf]

same issue with / and /index.html

[pmario]

But what if foo is a valid resource name?

[aaronshaf]

Perhaps resolve foo if it exists, and then foo.html or foo/index.htmlif not?

[pfrazee]

A couple questions:

• Is this for dat?
• Is the issue that you have a /foo.html, and you want /foo to load /foo.html ?
• What happens now? Does it 404, or does it show foo with the wrong content type?

[aaronshaf]

Yes, dat.

Two separate proposals:

1. /foo/ loads /foo/index.html
2. /foo loads foo.html if foo file doesn't exist.

Either would return a text/html content type with a 200 OK.

#1 seems like standard browser behavior and has the benefit of parity with local "normal" behavior. #2 not so much.

The big idea is that people are used to hosting web pages without showing the extension. Aesthetics, but still important. This is how GitHub routes automatically as well for Jekyll-generated sites.

[pfrazee]

Yeah I think I'm on board with both proposals. Let me think about it for a little bit, to make sure I'm not forgetting anything, but I'll give a soft 'yes' on both.

[tekknolagi]

I vote for proposal #1.

[pfrazee]

Turns out proposal 2 was already implemented. Proposal 1 will be in the next release.

Did you have trouble making proposal 2 work? It should be working (it is for me)