Fix error handling in renderStatic

Fixes #60

handlers_test.go

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ func createTemporaryRouter(t *testing.T) (*mux.Router, *rushlink) {
 		fs:      fileStore,
 		rootURL: rootURL,
 	}
-	return CreateMainRouter(&rl, true), &rl
+	return CreateMainRouter(&rl), &rl
 }
 
 // checkStatusCode checks whether the status code from a recorded response is equal
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ func TestIssue53(t *testing.T) {
 func TestIssue60(t *testing.T) {
 	srv, _ := createTemporaryRouter(t)
 
-	// Put a URL with a fragment identifier into the database.
+	// Request a nonexistent static file
 	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "/css/nonexistent_file.css", nil)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)

router.go

@@ -82,12 +82,13 @@ func (w *statusResponseWriter) WriteHeader(statusCode int) {
 }
 
 // CreateMainRouter creates the main Gorilla router for the application.
-func CreateMainRouter(rl *rushlink, debug bool) *mux.Router {
+//
+// This function will not populate the  router with an error-recovery and
+// metrics-reporting middleware. If these middleware are required, then the
+// caller should encapsulate this router inside of another router and register
+// the middlewares on the encapsulating router.
+func CreateMainRouter(rl *rushlink) *mux.Router {
 	router := mux.NewRouter()
-	if !debug {
-		router.Use(rl.recoveryMiddleware)
-		router.Use(rl.metricsMiddleware)
-	}
 	router.HandleFunc("/{path:img/"+staticFilenameExpr+"}", rl.staticGetHandler).Methods("GET", "HEAD")
 	router.HandleFunc("/{path:css/"+staticFilenameExpr+"}", rl.staticGetHandler).Methods("GET", "HEAD")
 	router.HandleFunc("/{path:js/"+staticFilenameExpr+"}", rl.staticGetHandler).Methods("GET", "HEAD")
@@ -122,8 +123,13 @@ func StartMainServer(addr string, db *db.Database, fs *db.FileStore, rawRootURL
 		rootURL: rootURL,
 	}
 
+	router := mux.NewRouter()
+	router.Use(rl.metricsMiddleware)
+	router.Use(rl.recoveryMiddleware)
+	router.Handle("/", CreateMainRouter(&rl))
+
 	srv := &http.Server{
-		Handler:      CreateMainRouter(&rl, false),
+		Handler:      router,
 		Addr:         addr,
 		WriteTimeout: 15 * time.Second,
 		ReadTimeout:  15 * time.Second,

views.go

@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ func mapExtend(m map[string]interface{}, key string, value interface{}) {
 
 func (rl *rushlink) renderStatic(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, path string) {
 	var modTime time.Time
-	if info, err := AssetInfo(path); err != nil {
+	if info, err := AssetInfo(path); err == nil {
 		modTime = info.ModTime()
 	}
 	contents, err := Asset(path)
@@ -118,7 +118,12 @@ func (rl *rushlink) render(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, status int, t
 			err = fmt.Errorf("'%v' not in textTemplates", tmplName)
 			break
 		}
+		if status != 0 {
+			w.WriteHeader(status)
+		}
+		if r.Method != "HEAD" {
 			err = tmpl.Execute(w, data)
+		}
 	case "text/html":
 		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "text/html")
 		tmpl := htmlTemplates[tmplName]
@@ -142,7 +147,6 @@ func (rl *rushlink) render(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, status int, t
 		if status != 0 {
 			w.WriteHeader(status)
 		}
-
 		if r.Method != "HEAD" {
 			err = tmpl.Execute(w, data)
 		}