Multiple suffixes for media types

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Hi,

I have few relatively large datasets as gzipped JSON files, with extension .json.gz. The hugo development server serves these files with the application/x-gzip MIME type. But, I would like them to be served as application/json files, because then the browser will automatically decompress them and consider them as normal JSON files. This plays more nicely with jQuery AJAX calls etc.

I’ve found this page: https://gohugo.io/templates/output-formats/

I could set the suffix of “application/json” to .json.gz, but it it seems like it will override the setting for normal .json files. Is it possible to configure multiple suffixes for a mime type?

Thanks in advance,
Lucas

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No, but you can define multiple mime types, which I guess is what you want.

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I don’t believe so: I would like both .json and .json.gz files to be served with the mimetype application/json. How would I approach that?

Thanks,
Lucas

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I’m not sure if this is possible to define in Hugo (it should be …), but the JSON MIME type is basically

application/json+json

Where the last part is the suffix.

So application/json+js would still be the same MIME type application/json, but with a different suffix. But as I said, thinking about it I think there is a limitation in Hugo on this.

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Alright thanks for your response, and something that sounded like a possible workaround. Unfortunately I cannot use the character “+” in Hugo mediatypes.

A feature that would be really awesome is if you could modify the HTTP headers that get sent for certain paths (using wildcards).

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Could you create an issue on GitHub and point back to this thread? It should be possible, but it needs some work.

HTTP headers can not be set from a static site.

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Yep I will.

Regarding the last point, I meant adding a configuration section to config.toml that allows you to specify what kind of headers are sent by the builtin hugo server for certain paths.