🐛 Can't serve static resources with no filename extension

[davidsoergel]

🐛 bug report

🎛 Configuration (.babelrc, package.json, cli command)

NODE_ENV=development parcel serve -d dist --open --no-hmr --public-url / index.html

🤔 Expected Behavior

Static resources placed inside ./dist/ should be served regardless of filename extension.

In particular, files with no extension at all should be served with content-type: application/octet-stream.

😯 Current Behavior

Files with no extension are specifically ignored and the main HTML bundle is sent instead. Adding any extension, even a meaningless one (e.g. .foobar) causes the file to serve properly.

See also #974, #782, and (maybe peripherally related) #536 and #303.

💁 Possible Solution

Remove the "empty extension" test and let the file be served.

🔦 Context

After loading, my webapp fetches static resources that are just blobs with no filename extension. I want to use parcel serve during development, so I just put the static resources under ./dist/ in hopes of serving them. The resource format is not under my control so I can't just add a filename extension to those files.

For now my workaround is to serve just the resources using an http-server on a different port, but that's pretty unwieldy.

🌍 Your Environment

Software	Version(s)
Parcel	1.7.0
Node	8.10.0
npm/Yarn	1.4.0
Operating System	MacOS 10.13.3

[DeMoorJasper]

This is due to #974 as seen in the discussion there this is intended behaviour...

[devongovett]

Wait, why do you have files without an extension and how do they get to your dist folder? Parcel doesn’t generate files without extensions

[davidsoergel]

The use case is described in the "Context" section.

I see that this behavior was introduced on purpose in #974, but the discussion there doesn't say why it should be considered desirable. What am I missing? Thanks!

[nsthorat]

+1 - I don't think the bundler / http server should be making decisions about file extensions for the application for the author :)

[yingshaoxo]

I do think that either tensorflow.js or parcel needs to do some serious change.

elwin013/parcel-plugin-static-files-copy#37

tensorflow/tfjs#924

[nestarz]

I neither can't use my files without extensions, and I don't have the option to change their names.

[github-actions]

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[t3hmrman]

For those who might run into this in the future and want a simple solution that works relatively easily and as expected for Parcel 2 elwin013/parcel-reporter-static-files-copy

[pulpdood]

I need to verify my domain for Apple Pay, and this requires serving a static file without a file extension, so there is a use case for this. The parcel static files copy reporter, while helpful, doesn't actually solve the issue of parcel not serving files without a file extension.

EDIT: never mind, just realised that files without extensions can be served when built on a server, which works well. It's just not available on locally served environment which is fine