Is there some set up required to make the ContentN...

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Is there some set up required to make the ContentNegotiation plugin (Ktor Server) work correctly? I installed it without configuration and am using call.respond(file.readBytes()) to send the response, from a file. Content-Type header is not being set, it's the expected behavior. What am I doing wrong?

[Sergey Shumov]

For files use respondFile
https://ktor.io/docs/responses.html#file

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@Sergey Shumov Thank you! It looks like I don't even need then content negotiation plugin installed for the correct Content-Type header to be set when using respondFile as you suggested. Do you have any opinion about using the content negotiation plugin? I do not need the serialization features, and the documentation is pretty sparse on what else it provides - if you have any insight there also, I would appreciate it - should I even install ContentNegotiation?

[Sergey Shumov]

If you don't use JSON, XML, etc. formats for request and responses you don't need to install ContentNegotiation.

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Thanks again!