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+import mimetypes
+import os.path
+
+from django.http import HttpResponse
+from django.template.response import TemplateResponse
+
+from .local_context_processors import fundgoal_lookup
+
+STATIC_ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
+FILESYSTEM_ENCODING = 'utf-8'
+
+def handler(request, errorcode):
+    path = os.path.join('error', str(errorcode), 'index.html')
+    fullpath = os.path.join(STATIC_ROOT, path)
+    if not os.path.exists(fullpath):
+        return HttpResponse("Internal error: " + path, status=int(errorcode))
+    else:
+        return TemplateResponse(request, path, status=int(errorcode))
+
+def handler401(request):
+    return handler(request, 401)
+
+def handler403(request):
+    return handler(request, 403)
+
+def handler404(request):
+    return handler(request, 404)
+
+def handler500(request):
+    return handler(request, 500)
+
+def index(request, *args, **kwargs):
+    path = request.path.lstrip('/')
+    if path.endswith('/'):
+        path += 'index.html'
+    fullpath = os.path.join(STATIC_ROOT, path)
+    try:
+        # Junk URLs in production (Python 3.5) are causing UnicodeEncodeErrors
+        # here. Can't reproduce in development in Python 3.9 - only Python 2.7.
+        if not os.path.exists(fullpath):
+            return handler404(request)
+    except UnicodeEncodeError:
+        return handler404(request)
+    content_type, _ = mimetypes.guess_type(path)
+    if content_type != 'text/html':
+        return HttpResponse(open(fullpath, 'rb'), content_type)
+    else:
+        context = kwargs.copy()
+        try:
+            context['fundgoal'] = fundgoal_lookup(kwargs['fundraiser_sought'])
+        except KeyError:
+            pass
+        return TemplateResponse(request, path, context)
+
+def debug(request):
+    path = request.get_full_path()
+    path = path.lstrip('/')
+    return HttpResponse("Hello, static world: " + path)