Set `config.static_index` to serve a static directory index file not
named `index`. For example, to serve `main.html` instead of `index.html`
for directory requests, set `config.static_index` to `"main"`.
Dir.glob can be a security concern. The original use was to provide logic of fallback files. Example a request to `/` should render the file from `/public/index.html`. We can replace the dir glob with the specific logic it represents. The glob {,index,index.html} will look for the current path, then in the directory of the path with index file and then in the directory of the path with index.html. This PR replaces the glob logic by manually checking each potential match. Best case scenario this results in one less file API request, worst case, this has one more file API request.
Related to #16464
Update: added a test for when a file of a given name (`public/bar.html` and a directory `public/bar` both exist in the same root directory. Changed logic to accommodate this scenario.
- don't mutate PATH_INFO in env, test
- test fallback content type matches Rack::File
- change assertion style
- make HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING comparison case insensitive
- return gzip path from method instead of true/false so we don't have to assume later
- don't allocate un-needed hash.
Original comments:
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/
cfaaacd9763642e91761de54c90669a88d772e5a#commitcomment-7468728
cc @jeremy
If someone is using ActionDispatch::Static to serve assets and makes it past the `match?` then the file exists on disk and it will be served. This PR adds in logic that checks to see if the file being served is already compressed (via gzip) and on disk, if it is it will be served as long as the client can handle gzip encoding. If not, then a non gzip file will be served.
This additional logic slows down an individual asset request but should speed up the consumer experience as compressed files are served and production applications should be delivered with a CDN. This PR allows a CDN to cache a gzip file by setting the `Vary` header appropriately. In net this should speed up a production application that are using Rails as an origin for a CDN. Non-asset request speed is not affected in this PR.
In #5337 we forced the path encoding to ASCII-8BIT to prevent static
file handling from blowing up before an application has had chance to
deal with possibly invalid urls. However this has a negative side
effect of making it an incompatible encoding if the application's
public path has UTF-8 characters in it.
To work around the problem we check to see if the path has a valid
encoding once it has been unescaped. If it is not valid then we can
return early since it will not match any file anyway.
Fixes#13518
