I'm serving unversioned files via fossil's uv function. Now, this works fine for files without file extension and for archives. But I need to serve a .txt file. The problem now is that it gets delivered as a HTML page including the fossil web layout around it.
Is there a way to tell fossil to not do that, and instead deliver it as a raw .txt file?
You can specify a mimetype parameter on the URL. For example, mimetype=application/octet-stream will cause it to be offered as download.
For example, instead of https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/uv/download.html, you’d put https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/uv/download.html?mimetype=application/octet-stream.
Fossil reacts to the following mimetypes by putting headers around them:
Unfortunately, all other mimetypes appear to lead to the browser downloading the unversioned file instead of displaying it.
If that's a problem, you could try a mimetype of text with no suffix.
Otherwise, you can post on Fossil's support forum. Either as a question or as a feature request. :-)
