How can I get clean URLs?

I have some html files that I want to serve up, but I don’t want to put the file extensions in the names of the files, because I want clean URLs.

Can I have html files with names like index, about, and still serve them up like html files to port 8080?

The -e options doesn’t seem to work when doing http-server -e html site/. I get no character encoding declared errors in firefox and 404’s on the console.

If I do http-server site/ -e html then firefox promps me to download the index and about files.

[BigBlueHat]

Good to know. I’ll focus my efforts on #160 then, and revisit more complex options later.

For my part, I’d like something similar to the File Handler in wptserve (a Python-based server for running the Web Platform Tests system at the W3C).

I’d like index to map to index.html (if it exists…and possibly through a series of other media types if found…perhaps optionally). I’d also very much like their .headers file thing for adding arbitrary headers to responses per file or directory. Super handy for all kinds of things. But decidedly a different issue. 😄

I’m going to close this in favor of focusing on #160 and/or filing additional more fixable bugs/features. 😉

Thanks for the feedback @wamoyo!

[wamoyo]

I ended up doing a bit of a work around, but I did fork this repo and make some adjustments. I’m happy to explore, absolutely : )