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+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
+  <head>
+    <title>Welcome to the Mojolicious real-time web framework!</title>
+  </head>
+  <body>
+    <h2>Welcome to the Mojolicious real-time web framework!</h2>
+    This is the static document "public/index.html",
+    <a href="/">click here</a> to get back to the start.
+  </body>
+</html>