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Package servefiles provides a static asset handler for serving files such as images, stylesheets and javascript code. This version is deprecated: please use v3 for new use cases. This asset handler is an enhancement to the standard net/http ServeFiles, which is used internally. Care is taken to set headers such that the assets will be efficiently cached by browsers and proxies. Assets is an http.Handler and can be used alongside your other handlers. The Assets handler serves gzipped content when the browser indicates it can accept it. But it does not gzip anything on-the-fly. Nor does it create any gzipped files for you. During the preparation of your web assets, all text files (CSS, JS etc) should be accompanied by their gzipped equivalent; your build process will need to do this. The Assets handler will first look for the gzipped file, which it will serve if present. Otherwise it will serve the 'normal' file. This has many benefits: fewer bytes are read from the disk, a smaller memory footprint is needed in the server, less data copying happens, fewer bytes are sent across the network, etc. You should not attempt to gzip already-compressed files, such as PNG, JPEG, SVGZ, etc. Very small files (e.g. less than 1kb) gain little from compression because they may be small enough to fit within a single TCP packet, so don't bother with them. (They might even grow in size when gzipped.) The Assets handler sets 'Etag' headers for the responses of the assets it finds. Modern browsers need this: they are then able to send conditional requests that very often shrink responses to a simple 304 Not Modified. This improves the experience for users and leaves your server free to do more of other things. The Etag value is calculated from the file size and modification timestamp, a commonly used approach. Strong or weak tags are used for plain or gzipped files respectively (the reason is that a given file can be compressed with different levels of compression, a weak Etag indicates there is not a strict match for the file's content). To go even further, the 'far-future' technique can and should often be used. Set a long expiry time, e.g. ten years via `time.Hour * 24 * 365 * 10`. Browsers will cache such assets and not make requests for them for the next ten years (or whatever). Not even conditional requests are made. There is clearly a big benefit in page load times after the first visit. No in-memory caching is performed server-side. This is needed less due to far-future caching being supported, but might be added in future. The Assets handler can optionally strip some path segments from the URL before selecting the asset to be served. This means, for example, that the URL can map to the asset files without the /e3b1cf/ segment. The benefit of this is that you can use a unique number or hash in that segment (chosen for example each time your server starts). Each time that number changes, browsers will see the asset files as being new, and they will later drop old versions from their cache regardless of their ten-year lifespan. So you get the far-future lifespan combined with being able to push out changed assets as often as you need to. To serve files with a ten-year expiry, this creates a suitably-configured handler: The first parameter names the local directory that holds the asset files. It can be absolute or relative to the directory in which the server process is started. Notice here the StripOff parameter is 1, so the first segment of the URL path gets discarded. A larger number is permitted. The WithMaxAge parameter is the maximum age to be specified in the cache-control headers. It can be any duration from zero upwards.
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