From: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 20:40:15 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: net/http: better stand-alone FileServer doc example
X-Git-Tag: go1.1rc2~174
X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.su/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d97157d3825f12e7b9702474136085276f7ef0a0;p=gostls13.git

net/http: better stand-alone FileServer doc example

Motivated by a deletion in the wiki, which had a better
example.

R=golang-dev, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/8288045
---

diff --git a/src/pkg/net/http/example_test.go b/src/pkg/net/http/example_test.go
index eed3beeea3..bc60df7f2b 100644
--- a/src/pkg/net/http/example_test.go
+++ b/src/pkg/net/http/example_test.go
@@ -51,11 +51,20 @@ func ExampleGet() {
 }
 
 func ExampleFileServer() {
-	// we use StripPrefix so that /tmpfiles/somefile will access /tmp/somefile
+	// Simple static webserver:
+	log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":8080", http.FileServer(http.Dir("/usr/share/doc"))))
+}
+
+func ExampleFileServer_stripPrefix() {
+	// To serve a directory on disk (/tmp) under an alternate URL
+	// path (/tmpfiles/), use StripPrefix to modify the request
+	// URL's path before the FileServer sees it:
 	http.Handle("/tmpfiles/", http.StripPrefix("/tmpfiles/", http.FileServer(http.Dir("/tmp"))))
 }
 
 func ExampleStripPrefix() {
-	// we use StripPrefix so that /tmpfiles/somefile will access /tmp/somefile
+	// To serve a directory on disk (/tmp) under an alternate URL
+	// path (/tmpfiles/), use StripPrefix to modify the request
+	// URL's path before the FileServer sees it:
 	http.Handle("/tmpfiles/", http.StripPrefix("/tmpfiles/", http.FileServer(http.Dir("/tmp"))))
 }