What's Dir? Is that a mongrel2 thing I haven't heard of yet? The presentation side of things is something I always neglect. I definitely would'nt do that. I'd make something ugly but useful. My guys don't care much about what it looks like and neither do I, but they do want to browse directories so they can dump files in there. Many big files from database jobs get moved around via http.
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Henry Finucane <[email protected]> wrote: > Listing means that you'd have to start dealing with templating and > style. Dir's primary virtue is that it's the simplest thing that could > possibly work. > > I would be interested to know if Guillermo or Jason would be willing > to accept patches. > > As a workaround, have you considered generating index files? I've had > good experiences with inotify for doing upload-triggered things, and > if files get deployed with something like Chef, you can always push > the templating logic into it. > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Brian McQueen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I wonder if there is a good reason to not add directory listing to the > basic > > http service provided. It would ease acceptance of mongrel2. I've got > it > > deployed here but folks keep asking for directory listing. It seems > > reasonable to add it ad basic http support. I'd like to be able to > deploy > > mongrel2 so folks can get basic http and they can do handlers for complex > > tasks. > > > > I'd be willing to add this, but I can't do it now. > > > > Is there a good reason to keep it out of the built-in mongrel2 http > service? > > > > -- > ----------------------- > | Henry Finucane > | "I hear aphorisms are popular" > ----------------------- > -- the news wire of the 21st century - twitchy.com
