filekicker

![kick.jpg](/space/kick.jpg)

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[Filekicker](/space/filekicker.py) is a [PyBlosxom](http://pyblosxom.sf.net/)
plugin that serves static files. The file to serve is determined by the URL
path and the `datadir` configuration option. The MIME type is inferred from the
file's extension.

For example, if `datadir` is set in `config.py` like so:

    py['datadir'] = '/home/ryanb/www'

and the user requests this url:

    http://mysite.org/videos/shovelglove.mov

filekicker will send `/home/ryanb/www/videos/shovelglove.mov` to the client,
if it exists, with the MIME type `video/quicktime`. If it doesn't exist,
filekicker will let pyblosxom handle the request.

Filekicker is different from, but related to, plugins such as
[pystaticfile](http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/blog/registry/files/pystaticfile),
[pyinclude](http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/blog/registry/include/pyinclude),
and
[imagekicker](http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/blog/registry/display/graphics/imagekicker).
It's basically a generalization of imagekicker, which inspired its name.

Filekicker is copyright 2006 [Ryan Barrett](/space/about), and is distributed
under the [GPL](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html).

See also:
  * [pyblosxom ajax comments](/space/pyblosxom ajax comments)
  * [pyblosxom rdf flavour](/space/pyblosxom rdf flavour)
  * [migrating to pyblosxom](/space/2006-08-23)