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Message-Id: <s9913286.014@gwia.unt.edu>
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 10:28:49 -0500
From: "Allen Akers" <Akers@cc.admin.unt.edu>
To: <tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org>, <NP-WAYLAND_DAN@subcontractor.PRC.com>
Subject: Re: more on hard coded mime types
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Are you sure this isn't a browser issue?  Sounds like the XML file should =
be re-routed to the client side of WebStart in order to start up the =
appropriate program.  It seems that would need to be set in the MIME =
handler on the browser side.  Just a thought from someone who hasn't =
looked over WebStart yet.

               Allen Akers
               Programmer Analyst
               Strategic Web and Voice Development
               ________________________________
               akers@cc.admin.unt.edu


>>> NP-WAYLAND_DAN@subcontractor.PRC.com 08/08/00 02:31PM >>>
At this point, I've added my mime mapping to every web.xml file that I =
have.
It still displays the jnlp file as if it were xml.  Apache worked very
easily by just adding=20

application/jnlp		jnlp

to the mime.types file.  Can anybody see if they can duplicate this =
problem?
JNLP files are xml files that lauch java applications and applets through
Web Start.  You can download Web Start from
http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/=20

If your Tomcat server starts the application with web start instead of
showing you the xml, what else did you do besides add the mime type to
web.xml?

Dan


I need to add a mime type to my Jakarta Tomcat server to handle jnlp =
files.
I tried adding=20

<mime-mapping>
        <extension> jnlp </extension>
        <mime-type> application/jnlp </mime-type>
</mime-mapping>

to my web.xml file, and it didn't work.  The .jnlp file still gets served =
up
as though it's xml.  I read in this mailing list that some of the stuff =
from
web.xml such as mime types has become hard coded.  Is there any way to add =
a
new mime type to handle these jnlp or Web Start files appropriately?

If you tried to add it to WEB-INF/web.xml and it didn't work - it's a
serious bug. If you tried to add it to conf/web.xml - it will not work =
with
the current code, but it's not a bug (IMHO). If you want to have portable
applications you need to add the mime type you need to WEB-INF/web.xml. It
is very easy to allow the admin to add new mime types, but if we want to =
do
that it's better to use server.xml as a config file. We can do that for
tomcat 3.3. Costin=20


--
Dan Wayland
Southwest Research Institute
(703)883-8467
np-wayland_dan@subcontractor.prc.com=20


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