meteor-cordova-file-server

A local HTTP server for cordova applications to load files from the device file system.

Usage

This package will automatically start up a cordova based http server that will server all files from the application filesystem.

See the included example app for cordova downloads and offline loading.

This package is a workaround of this issue https://github.com/meteor/meteor/issues/3799 Cordova based meteor apps can use cordova to download files to the filesystem, but they are unable to load files from "file://" based urls into the app.

`<img src="file://something.png"/>` will fail even if the file exists

With this local http server running you can now load assets from the local filesystem

`<img src="http://127.0.0.1:8080/something.png"/>`

CordovaFileServer

CordovaFileServer is exported from this package and available on the client.

CordovaFileServer.httpd is cordova.plugins.CorHttpd

CordovaFileServer.httpUrl is the local url - usually "http://127.0.0.1:8080/"

Overriding Default Options

The cordova http server options can be overridden from Meteor settings.

{
	"public":{
		"CordovaFileServer":{
			"port":8080,
			"localhost_only": false
		}
	}
}

TODO

• Option for manual start of server
• Ensure server is up on resume
• Extract secondary package from example that deals with file urls, downloads, etc

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Version History

###v0.1

• Initial Release