[PHP-DEV] Built-in web server routing script and static assets

2011-07-11 Thread Kiall Mac Innes
Hiya, I've been playing with the built-in server, and have some concerns over how static assets are handled. Currently, to run an application on the built-in server, we essentially need to list out all the static assets that should be served directly from disk. This is the opposite of what I

Re: [PHP-DEV] Built-in web server routing script and static assets

2011-07-11 Thread Ralph Schindler
Hey Kiall, An optional argument to the built in web server can be a php based router. If the router returns false, it will attempt to return the resource as-it-is on disk. Your command line looks like this: php -S localhost:8000 -t ./path/to/docroot routing.php routing.php can be one of

Re: [PHP-DEV] Built-in web server routing script and static assets

2011-07-11 Thread Kiall Mac Innes
Hi Ralph, I'm aware of the ability to use a routing script to determine which files to serve via a return false;. My concern is that every framework / application etc is going to need one in order to work with the built-in server (even if they all need the same one!).. So considering this

Re: [PHP-DEV] Built-in web server routing script and static assets

2011-07-11 Thread Keloran
it does seem silly that the server would even try to serve those files rather than check if they are of a certain header/mime before, but at least with this method it does mean that you can fix your code to always bypass this, and if your purposlly testing through the CLI-server anyway, changing