We've got two parts to this thing: Config -- manage the configuration I'm only going to support starting aspen in the root of the site you want to serve. And the config file is only going to be in one place: __/aspen.conf. No command line option for using a different conf file. defaults command line options configuration file envvars Website to add filters based on mimetype if response.headers['Content-Type'].startswith('text/html'): foo to register custom extensions w/ mimetypes, use mimetype.add_type in a startup filter can we access the last traceback from a exception filter?