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I saw that you can use connect to use serve static files in a Node.js HTTP server like this:

var http = require('http');
var connect = require('connect');
var app = connect().use(connect.static(__dirname + path));
http.createServer(app).listen(8080);

How would I implement this in my current handler?

var http = require("http");
var handler = function(request, response){
    // code
}
http.createServer(handler);

Is this even possible? If so, how can I accomplish it?

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Why don't you just specify the directory to serve static files in? i.e. app.use(express.static('public'))? – vincentjp 22 hours ago
    
@vincentjp Because I'm not using Express. – bjskistad 22 hours ago
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See Using node.js as a simple web server: stackoverflow.com/questions/6084360/… – Bruno 22 hours ago
    
But it's so much easier. – vincentjp 22 hours ago
    
@vincentjp But it's NOT what I'm using. – bjskistad 13 hours ago
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Unless you want to use an older version of connect that might not function properly, you'd have to install serve-static to do what you're trying to do. See this answer http://stackoverflow.com/a/24347442/5382465 

var finalhandler = require('finalhandler')
var http = require('http')
var serveStatic = require('serve-static')

// Serve up public folder 
var serve = serveStatic('public', {'index': ['index.html', 'index.htm']})

// Create server 
var handler = http.createServer(function onRequest (req, res) {
  serve(req, res, finalhandler(req, res))
})

// Listen 
handler.listen(3000)
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