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-rw-r--r--modules/caddyhttp/fileserver/staticfiles.go18
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/modules/caddyhttp/fileserver/staticfiles.go b/modules/caddyhttp/fileserver/staticfiles.go
index 4fe28d3..0ed558e 100644
--- a/modules/caddyhttp/fileserver/staticfiles.go
+++ b/modules/caddyhttp/fileserver/staticfiles.go
@@ -60,7 +60,23 @@ func init() {
// requested directory does not have an index file, Caddy writes a
// 404 response. Alternatively, file browsing can be enabled with
// the "browse" parameter which shows a list of files when directories
-// are requested if no index file is present.
+// are requested if no index file is present. If "browse" is enabled,
+// Caddy may serve a JSON array of the dirctory listing when the `Accept`
+// header mentions `application/json` with the following structure:
+//
+// [{
+// "name": "",
+// "size": 0,
+// "url": "",
+// "mod_time": "",
+// "mode": 0,
+// "is_dir": false,
+// "is_symlink": false
+// }]
+//
+// with the `url` being relative to the request path and `mod_time` in the RFC 3339 format
+// with sub-second precision. For any other value for the `Accept` header, the
+// respective browse template is executed with `Content-Type: text/html`.
//
// By default, this handler will canonicalize URIs so that requests to
// directories end with a slash, but requests to regular files do not.