Module `Webs_kit.Gateway`

Gateway interaction.

File serving handoff

val send_file : ?⁠prefix:string -> header:Webs.Http.name -> Webs.Req.t -> (Webs.Resp.t, Webs.Resp.t) Stdlib.result

send_file ~prefix ~header r is:

Ok resp. An empty Webs.Http.s200_ok response with header set to r's request target as transformed by Webs.Http.Path.to_undotted_filepath and prefixed by prefix (defaults to "/").
Error resp is a Webs.Http.s400_bad_request if the the Webs.Http.Path.to_undotted_filepath conversion fails.

Used with the appropriate header this allows to handoff the request back to the gateway for it to serve the file. See this section of the web service howto manual.

val x_accel_redirect : Webs.Http.name: x_accel_redirect is the header name "x-accel-redirect" used by nginx for internal redirection.

val x_sendfile : Webs.Http.name: x_sendfile is the header name "x-sendfile". Used by Apache and Lightppd for file serving.