http-server

From this release forward, http-server will only generate etags for files smaller than 5 Megabytes (5 * 1024 * 1024). This value is configurable, and using a smaller value will use less RAM.

What's Changed

• Bump github.com/klauspost/compress from 1.17.10 to 1.17.11 by @dependabot in https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/pull/130
• Bump github.com/yuin/goldmark from 1.7.4 to 1.7.8 by @dependabot in https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/pull/133
• Enable etag generation on smaller files only. by @patrickdappollonio in https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/pull/135

Full Changelog: https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/compare/v2.5.0...v2.5.1

Many thanks to @muse-sisay for adding support for custom 404 handling and solving a longstanding feature request from 2021! (#7).

What's Changed

• Add support for custom status codes in "serveFile". by @patrickdappollonio in https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/pull/128
• Add support for custom 404 error pages by @muse-sisay in https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/pull/126
• Update documentation on README by @patrickdappollonio in https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/pull/129

New Contributors

• @muse-sisay made their first contribution in https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/pull/126

Full Changelog: https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/compare/v2.4.0...v2.5.0

A new feature and a fix to our recent release of _redirections was updated in this release:

Redirecting on empty paths

For those of you living in the edge and already using the _redirections file, there was a bug that if a specific redirections file was crafted, some matches would incorrectly match an empty path. For example assume a URL called /docs/ with the following redirections file:

/docs/:foo /docs/:foo/overview permanent

This would incorrectly match a URL of http://example.com/docs to be redirected to http://example.com/docs//overview. We've added a test to ensure this case doesn't repeat again.

Preventing directory listing

For some mission-critical sites, using http-server truly is just a way to show your websites (HTML-made) to the world without leaking potentially important information while at it.

This release allows you to specify --disable-directory-listing in any of the configuration forms and automatically return a HTTP 404 Not Found response if you land on a directory that doesn't include an index. This will also play nicely with an upcoming feature to return a customized 404 page (and potentially returning 200 instead of 404 in those pages, to allow for SPAs to be rendered via http-server).

What's Changed

• Fix redirecting on empty path parameter by @patrickdappollonio in https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/pull/123
• Enable option to disable directory listing. by @patrickdappollonio in https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/pull/124

Full Changelog: https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/compare/v2.3.0...v2.4.0

What's Changed

• Bump github.com/go-playground/validator/v10 from 10.17.0 to 10.18.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/pull/92
• Bump github.com/klauspost/compress from 1.17.5 to 1.17.6 by @dependabot in https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/pull/91
• Bump github.com/yuin/goldmark from 1.6.0 to 1.7.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/pull/90
• Bump github.com/go-chi/chi/v5 from 5.0.11 to 5.0.12 by @dependabot in https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/pull/94
• Bump github.com/go-playground/validator/v10 from 10.18.0 to 10.19.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/pull/96
• Bump github.com/klauspost/compress from 1.17.6 to 1.17.7 by @dependabot in https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/pull/95
• Bump github.com/go-playground/validator/v10 from 10.19.0 to 10.20.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/pull/101
• Bump golang.org/x/net from 0.21.0 to 0.23.0 in the go_modules group by @dependabot in https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/pull/100
• Bump github.com/klauspost/compress from 1.17.7 to 1.17.8 by @dependabot in https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/pull/99
• Bump github.com/yuin/goldmark from 1.7.0 to 1.7.1 by @dependabot in https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/pull/98
• Bump github.com/spf13/viper from 1.18.2 to 1.19.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/pull/103
• Bump github.com/yuin/goldmark from 1.7.1 to 1.7.4 by @dependabot in https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/pull/110
• Bump github.com/spf13/cobra from 1.8.0 to 1.8.1 by @dependabot in https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/pull/107
• Bump github.com/go-playground/validator/v10 from 10.20.0 to 10.22.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/pull/106
• Bump github.com/klauspost/compress from 1.17.8 to 1.17.9 by @dependabot in https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/pull/105
• Bump github.com/go-chi/chi/v5 from 5.0.12 to 5.1.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/pull/111
• Bump goreleaser/goreleaser-action from 5 to 6 by @dependabot in https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/pull/104
• Add content type detection by @patrickdappollonio in https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/pull/112

Full Changelog: https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/http-server/compare/v2.1.4...v2.1.5