go-whosonfirst-fileserver

go-whosonfirst-fileserver

There are many static file servers written in Go (and friends). This one is ours.

Install

You will need to have both Go (specifically version 1.12 or higher because we're using Go modules) and the make programs installed on your computer. Assuming you do just type:

make tools

All of this package's dependencies are bundled with the code in the vendor directory.

Tools

www-fileserver

> ./bin/www-fileserver -h
Usage of ./bin/www-fileserver:
  -cors
    	Enable CORS header on responses
  -cors-allowed-origins string
    	Comma-separated list of CORS allowed origins (default "*")
  -gzip
    	gzip response bodies
  -host string
    	Hostname to listen on (default "localhost")
  -path string
    	Path served as document root. (default "./")
  -port int
    	Port to listen on (default 8080)

To do

• Support for TLS certificates

See also

• https://github.com/NYTimes/gziphandler
• https://github.com/rs/cors