| Summary: | ppt and vsd MIME types should be included in web.xml | ||
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| Product: | Tomcat 5 | Reporter: | Scott Pontillo <pontillo> |
| Component: | Unknown | Assignee: | Tomcat Developers Mailing List <dev> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P3 | ||
| Version: | 5.0.19 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | other | ||
Fixed. The lines in web.xml currently distributed with Tomcat 5.0.28 do not work for
Internet Exploder. Further, the web.xml file omits an entry for "PPS"
(power-point show) files.
Details: I hit problems while attempting to provide access to powerpoint files
using Tomcat 5.0.28. That version is distributed with these lines in web.xml:
<mime-mapping>
<extension>ppt</extension>
<mime-type>application/powerpoint</mime-type>
</mime-mapping>
I compared the mime-types with entries in Apache 2.20 mime.types file,
where I find only this:
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint ppt
Based on my tests, Firefox works fine with the application/powerpoint
entry, but IE does not. IE seems to require the
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint variation, and Firefox accepts that as
well. I used the following to replace what is shown above with good results:
<mime-mapping>
<extension>ppt</extension>
<mime-type>application/vnd.ms-powerpoint</mime-type>
</mime-mapping>
<mime-mapping>
<extension>pps</extension>
<mime-type>application/vnd.ms-powerpoint</mime-type>
</mime-mapping>
Please consider using these entries in the web.xml distributed with Tomcat.
I do not have Visio, so could not test the behavior of IE on a Visio file, but
that probably should be checked as well.
I contacted Scott Pontillo, the original reporter of this bug, and he made the
following suggestion:
> As a longer-term solution to this problem, maybe it would be good to
>establish a process for importing the entries from the native Apache
>server periodically? It seems they are kept more up-to-date for that
>product...
I've taken it upon myself to reopen the bug since it is easily reproducible and
seems like such a minor issue. I apologize if this was premature. Thanks for
listening.
Fixed in head, thanks. |
Having the following MIME types represented in the default Tomcat web.xml would be useful: <mime-mapping> <extension>ppt</extension> <mime-type>application/powerpoint</mime-type> </mime-mapping> <mime-mapping> <extension>vsd</extension> <mime-type>application/x-visio</mime-type> </mime-mapping>