making a box for a directory above this one doesn't work about packr HOT 6 CLOSED

actually, this seems to happen for sub directories as well, which means I'm misunderstanding something.

	box := packr.NewBox("./public")

	http.Handle("/", http.FileServer(box))
	fmt.Println("serving docs at http://localhost:8080")
	fmt.Println("hit ctrl-C to cancel")
	go browser.OpenURL("http://localhost:8080")
	log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil))

^^ This will serve up what's in ./public if the folder exists, but if I remove the folder, it gives me 404s.

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note that this is after running packr, while having a packer file that looks like this:

func init() {
	packr.PackJSONBytes("./public", "index.html", "\"SGkgTWFyayE=\"")
	}

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Looks like the problem actually has to do with how http.FileServer handles index.html files:

http.Handle("/", http.FileServer(http.Dir("/tmp")))
As a special case, the returned file server redirects any request ending in "/index.html" to the same path, without the final "index.html".

If I throw any other file in the box it works just as expected. It's literally only index.html files.

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oh man, that is crazy town. Thanks for figuring this out :)

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lol. Tell me about it! I had to dig deep to figure how to make it work. They’re doing some really strange things in the http package.

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If you want an http.FileServer-like construct with ability to turn off special handling of index.html files, it's quite easy to make your own. You can see an example of one I've created at https://godoc.org/github.com/shurcooL/httpgzip#FileServer.

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