Serving a Single File from the Root

[Sydo Luciani]

Procedure to serve favicon.ico from root:

https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid-cookbook/en/latest/static_assets/serving-files.html#serving-a-single-file-from-the-root

Throws error:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x9e in position 34: invalid start byte

Apparently open().read() can't decode favicon.ico.

Has any one had success with this procedure ?

I had to change the favicon_view to return "FileResponse" object to make it work:

https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid-cookbook/en/latest/static_assets/serving-files.html#serving-file-content-dynamically

somehow the .rst file on github not showing the code that shows in .html or in .raw file:

https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_cookbook/blob/master/docs/static_assets/serving-files.rst#serving-a-single-file-from-the-root

[Michael Merickel]

The unicode issue is just due to opening the file in unicode mode (the default in python 3) and then setting the result to body (which expects bytes). Modify the open calls to use open(..., 'rb') and it should work.

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[Sydo Luciani]

Adding 'rb' parameter to open method fixed the issue.

Thank you

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