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diff --git a/libpathod/templates/docs_pathod.html b/libpathod/templates/docs_pathod.html index 194fe473..b5a03023 100644 --- a/libpathod/templates/docs_pathod.html +++ b/libpathod/templates/docs_pathod.html @@ -33,18 +33,17 @@ this, just fire up your browser, and point it to the following URL:</p> <pre class="example">http://localhost:9999</pre> <p>The default crafting anchor point is the path <b>/p/</b>. Anything after -this URL prefix is treated as a response specifier. Hitting the following URL -will generate an HTTP 200 response with 100 bytes of random data:</p> +this URL prefix is treated as a response specifier. So, hitting the following +URL will generate an HTTP 200 response with 100 bytes of random data:</p> <pre class="example">http://localhost:9999/p/200:b@100</pre> <p>See the <a href="/docs/language">language documentation</a> to get (much) -fancier. The pathod daemon also takes a number of configuration options. To -view those, use the command-line help:</p> +fancier. The pathod daemon also takes a range of configuration options. To view +those, use the command-line help:</p> <pre class="terminal">./pathod --help</pre> - </section> @@ -53,13 +52,15 @@ view those, use the command-line help:</p> <h1>Anchors</h1> </div> -You can also add anchors to the pathod server that serve a fixed response -whenever a matching URL is requested:</p> +<p>Anchors provide an alternative to specifying the response in the URL. +Instead, you attach a response to a pre-configured anchor point, specified with +a regex. When a URL matching the regex is requested, the specified response is +served.</p> <pre class="terminal">./pathod -a "/foo=200"</pre> -<p>Here, "/foo" a regex specifying the anchor path, and the part after the "=" is -a response specifier.</p> +<p>Here, "/foo" is ithe regex specifying the anchor path, and the part after +the "=" is a response specifier.</p> </section> @@ -69,6 +70,13 @@ a response specifier.</p> <h1>File Access</h1> </div> +<p>There are two operators in the <a href="/docs/language">language</a> that +load contents from file - the <b>+</b> operator to load an entire request +specification from file, and the <b>></b> value specifier. In pathod, both +of these operators are restricted to a directory specified at startup, or +disabled if no directory is specified:</p> + +<pre class="terminal">./pathod -d ~/staticdir"</pre> </section> |