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From: "Andrew Stevens" <ats37@hotmail.com>
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Subject: FW: ResourceReader mime type auto-detection
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 17:20:19 +0100
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No response over in users@, so perhaps I'll have more luck here? :-)


Andrew.


>From: "Andrew Stevens" <ats37@hotmail.com>
>Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 13:08:56 +0100
>
>Hi,
>
>I have a pipeline that needs to serve up static files of any type from a 
>particular directory.  And yes, I know it'd be more efficient to just have 
>the web server do it, but we don't control the server that hosts it and 
>there's constraints on the configuration & deployment process that mean we 
>have to do it this way.  Previously, I was using a matcher for each file 
>extension, and specifying the corresponding mime-type parameter in the 
>map:read.  However, I gather that if no mime-type is specified the resource 
>reader is supposed to determine the mime type automatically using 
>inputSource.getMimeType() on the (Excalibur) Source.  So I tried replacing 
>my multiple matchers with just
>
><map:match pattern="staticfiles/**">
><map:read src="files/{1}"/>
></map:match>
>
>For PDFs and image files, this works just fine.  However, MS 
>Word/Excel/Powerpoint files are displayed as text/binary within the browser 
>window rather than prompting to download or open them in the relevant 
>application.  SWF files are also displayed as text rather than in the Flash 
>player/plugin.  This appears to be because the Content-Type header is being 
>sent back as "text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" rather than e.g. 
>application/vnd.ms-excel
>I haven't checked every file type we use (yet) so there may be others that 
>also have the problem.
>
>Is this a known limitation of the resource reader?  Does it only recognise 
>certain file types, or is there something else going on I'm not aware of 
>(e.g. missing some configuration somewhere)?  I'm using Cocoon 2.1.7, 
>although the current SVN version on the 2_1_X branch doesn't appear to be 
>any different.
>
>
>Andrew.