It is now "documented behavior" (issue is closed), there are 2 mentions of this special case here https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#FileServer and here https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#ServeFile
On Wednesday, August 17, 2016 at 8:44:36 AM UTC+2, Howard Guo wrote: > > It is a known issue, file server treats index.html differently: > > https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9876 > > On Tuesday, 16 August 2016 10:03:21 UTC+2, Howard Guo wrote: >> >> Hello fellow gophers. >> >> I'm starting a very trivial file server in a directory where there are >> files called "index.html" and "LICENSE": >> >> http.Handle("/", http.FileServer(http.Dir("."))) >> >> It has no trouble serving file LICENSE, however, the web server always >> responds with HTTP 301 when serving "index.html" - no matter what is >> written in the file. >> >> What's the magic over there? How to get it to serve index.html? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Regards, >> Howard >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
