Generating a redirect from an XML file

[despinoUY]

I'm looking forward generating a redirect from an old XML file that my Jekyll site had. Setting a redirect_to variable would generate the right HTML but won't make the redirection because that would generate a non valid file. Is there any way to make this happen?

[grosscol]

The problem is going to be that the Content-Type in the header of the response is going to depend on the webserver serving out the content. Jekyll server guesses based on the file extension. So the Content-Type is application/xml; charset=utf-8 when the actual content is a redirecting HTML page. The web browser tries to parse it as XML, and that doesn't work.

You should be able to set the Content-Type of a response to whatever you like, but that's outside the scope of Jekyll entirely. If you were writing a web based application, you'd have control over the response headers in code. If you were writing an apache config, you could modify the response headers there. In short, the configuration to support this would be outside of Jekyll.

See: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/issues/5454 for a related discussion about serving JSON files without the .json file extension.

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