option to set response headers, specially for CORS about node-ecstatic HOT 4 CLOSED

You can't set headers before using this middleware? Example:

app.use(cors()); // npm view cors
app.use(static); // returned from ecstatic()

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uhm, I guess could.. It is just because I'm using http-server and thought it was just a simple wrapper to ecstatic (now I see they also use union...)

I'm still not sure what is the best option (add this setting to ecstatic or to http-server) but feel free to close it if you think it is not necessary, as you said it is pretty easy to inject the headers to the response in any case. - I will need to ask for a pull request on http-server anyway...

Thanks.

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Yes, http-server is a wrapper around ecstatic.

I'm not really interested in adding more features to ecstatic itself, though perhaps this would be a useful addition to http-server. Personally, I'd recommend only using the ecstatic/http-server cli tools for testing, and use either a custom server or something like nginx for static assets in production.

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yeah, I'm only using it to test things locally that way I don't need to setup apache/nginx for quick stuff... (way easier to start/stop) and as a replacement for python SimpleHTTPServer which is way slower and have some issues w/ multiple consecutive file requests.

I'm trying to run it from a different port/domain that way I can load the static files from my local machine and execute the server-side scripts from a different machine/VM/host as a hack to speed up development on a slow server and load things in parallel (poor man's domain sharding).

opened the issue on http-server (http-party/http-server#43), thanks a lot for the feedback and all the good work.

cheers!

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