Configure additional mime types

[olegomon]

add mime type support to enable streaming of video files with html 5 video tag

[codydjango]

Yes, I'd like to be able to configure additional content types as well.

For instance, text/cache-manifest for .manifest files. Seems to work fine in chrome either way, but I imagine there are other use cases for this feature.

[mmalecki]

+1, would love it for .webapp. Pull requests would be welcome!

[ckapop]

Any news on HTML 5 video support?

[mrthan]

+1 I'm trying to test m3u8 HLS playlists and need to set the mime type

[Baccanno]

+1 Resource interpreted as Stylesheet but transferred with MIME type application/octet-stream: "http://localhost:8080/less/main.less".

[ralyodio]

also .less is not supported +1 for that.

[dotnetCarpenter]

I'll give it a shot. Just got an API implemented in the upstream ecstatic. If it gets accepted and I'm successful here... well, then it's done.

[dotnetCarpenter]

Can someone give me a hand with #152?
I can't figure out how to test the feature with vows. If I start http-server, I can request files with custom mime-types but no matter what I do in http-server-test.js, I get an ECONNREFUSED. I'm pretty sure it's a race condition but I can't figure out how to fix it.

Any ideas?

[timdp]

It'd also be nice if we could map .mpd to application/dash+xml for MPEG-DASH.

[stowball]

I would love to be able to serve SVGs correctly using the MIME type images/svg+xml

[BigBlueHat]

#152 just needs tests afaict. If anyone wants to right those, I'd be 👍 for merging that. Setting media types correctly is rather essential--and ecstatic already supports a way to set the mappings (between extension and media type) properly. So. Who's up for writing tests?! 😁

[75lb]

MIME types can be customised in local-web-server, is that the kind of behaviour you're looking for?

[grokify]

+1 for SVG and/or customizable approach similar local-web-server.

[anderspitman]

Just want to chime in that lack of WebAssembly mime is forcing me to look for an alternative local server. http-server has beautifully handled all my needs up to this point and I'd hate to switch if I don't have to.

[paulmelnikow]

@anderspitman Did you find another option? At some point I switched from http-server to serve, but it has the same limitation.

[anderspitman]

@paulmelnikow I've been using https://crates.io/crates/https. That page includes installation instructions for non Rust developers as well.

[yiminghe]

https://crates.io/crates/https: http -m wasm:application/wasm

[ddennedy]

In case you landed here to figure out how to use the --mimetypes command line option and the syntax of its file, see here: https://github.com/jfhbrook/node-ecstatic#--mime-types-filename
(However, note that the option is not --mime-types in http-server!)
For example,

$ cat hls/mime.types
ecstatic({ mimeTypes: { 'application/vnd.apple.mpegurl': ['m3u8'] } })

[acxz]

@ddennedy I'm afraid that didn't seem to change anything for me

[mtozlu]

Example mime type file can be found here;
https://github.com/http-party/http-server/blob/93fbb755fe55aa13878af9a91bc8e1a274522dbe/test/fixtures/custom_mime_type.types

[dsoudakov]

In case you landed here to figure out how to use the --mimetypes command line option and the syntax of its file, see here: https://github.com/jfhbrook/node-ecstatic#--mime-types-filename (However, note that the option is not --mime-types in http-server!) For example,

$ cat hls/mime.types
ecstatic({ mimeTypes: { 'application/vnd.apple.mpegurl': ['m3u8'] } })

Simply creating a custom.types file with "type ext1 ext2" works.

[insanity54]

I don't think this is mentioned in the docs, but the source code allows using stringified JSON to customize the mimetype. (no mime.types file required!)

npx http-server -c-1 --mimetypes '{ "application/vnd.apple.mpegurl": ["mp4"] }'

I'm sharing this because I was looking for http-server --mimetypes usage guide. Couldn't find enough detail in the docs so I dug into the code. Hoping it's useful for someone else too 👍