2.11 Serving Files
The web-server/dispatchers/dispatch-files module allows files to be served.
It defines a dispatcher construction procedure.
procedure
(make #:url->path url->path [ #:path->mime-type path->mime-type #:indices indices]) → dispatcher/c url->path : url->path/c
path->mime-type : (path? . -> . (or/c false/c bytes)?) = (lambda (path) #f) indices : (listof string?) = (list "index.html" "index.htm")
Uses url->path to extract a path from the URL in the request
object. If this path does not exist, then the dispatcher does not apply and
next-dispatcher is invoked.
If the path is a directory, then the indices are checked in order
for an index file to serve. In that case, or in the case of a path that is
a file already, path->mime-type is consulted for the MIME
Type of the path. The file is then
streamed out the connection object.
This dispatcher supports HTTP Range GET requests and HEAD requests.