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1328 :: Serving a file using asynchttpserver

• franza (orginal) [2015-06-16T21:56:56+02:00] view original

  Hey there, I'm learning Nim for few days now and now I'm digging through HTTP and async things.

  Is there a way to send back a file as a response in the code like this:

  
    proc handleRequest(req: Request) {.async.} =
      await req.respond(Http200, "Hi there")
    
    asyncCheck newAsyncHttpServer().serve(Port 8080, handleRequest)
    runForever()
  Run

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• dom96 (orginal) [2015-06-17T01:43:44+02:00] view original

  Yeah, read the file using the asyncfile module (http://nim-lang.org/docs/asyncfile.html). You can read the file a 2000 or so characters at a time and use the sendHeaders together with simply writing the contents of the file you read like so await req.client.send(data).

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