Is there a way to set custom status code when using http.ServeFile()?

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If I do

res.WriteHeader(404)
http.ServeFile(res, req, notFoundHtmlFile)

it’ll give warning

http: superfluous response.WriteHeader call

also it’ll lose all the headers set by http.ServeFile like Content-Type

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I think you would need to create your own ServerFile, because it already returns HTTP OK (200). Look, your are returning a custom error page, and it is perfectly good that return a OK because the file will be returned.
I guess the process is read the file, and then write this string in ResponseWriter and setting the headers you would need

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Thanks. I guess that’s the way to go.

I want to use ServeFile because it does all the mime type guessing and other headers, and even have a nice interface for serving directories.

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