Why does the SimpleHTTPServer not serve wav files when serving a node.js app?

Question

When I do a

http://localhost:8090/

Most of the files in the root directory are displayed: e.g. .js and .py . But all of the .wav files are omitted. When trying to access it directly:

localhost:8090/mywav.wav

a 404 is returned. Is there some configuration causing this?

@Pie'Oh'Pah see my answer: it seems that node.js is whitelisting the files. Need to re-do npm init. — WestCoastProjects
– WestCoastProjects, Commented Jun 11, 2020 at 1:01
Indirectly plenty : this is a common usage pattern to serve node.js I'll add node.js tag — WestCoastProjects
– WestCoastProjects, Commented Jun 11, 2020 at 1:09

WestCoastProjects · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-11 01:01:01Z

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Apparently this has to do with node.js. On a hunch I re-ran

 npm init

Now the wav files - which I had added recently after the initial npm init do show up. So .. does that mean that node is whitelisting files - presumably for security purposes? I still do wonder then if there were a way to disable that given this is a localhost server accessed by me myself and I.

answered Jun 11, 2020 at 1:01

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