Default Service Directive

AService directive usually performs the default task, sending a file if no other Service directive matches a request sent by a browser. This default directive must come last in the list of Service directives in the default object to ensure it only gets called if no other Service directives have succeeded. The default Service directive is usually:

Service method="(GET|HEAD|POST)" fn="send-file"

            

This directive matches requests whose method is GET, HEAD, or POST, which covers nearly virtually all requests sent by browsers.

If the server has not already executed a Service directive when it reaches this directive, it executes the directive so long as the request method is GET, HEAD or POST. The invoked function is send-file, which simply sends the contents of the requested file to the client.