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Posted to dev@tomcat.apache.org by Tim Funk <fu...@joedog.org> on 2003/12/16 19:08:59 UTC
Re: Intro/question possible buglet with Content-Type and Charsets
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Yeah, nagoya.apache.org seems down. Hopefully it will be back soon. The bug
has good detail of what and how to fix.
-Tim
Greg.Cope@pfizer.com wrote:
> Thanks Tim,
>
> Having a little trouble getting anything from bugzilla, nagoya.apache.org
> seems to be having a little trouble!
>
> Looking in the archives for this id, I see that someone has a 4.1.29 patch
> and a complied class, but cannot see either email address or content via the
> archive.
>
> Ho hum....
>
> Thanks for the pointer.
>
> Greg
>
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Tim Funk [mailto:funkman@joedog.org]
>>Sent: 16 December 2003 12:31
>>To: Tomcat Developers List
>>Subject: Re: Intro/question possible buglet with Content-Type and
>>Charsets.
>>
>>
>>http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24970
>>
>>Greg.Cope@pfizer.com wrote:
>>
>>>Hi All,
>>>
>>>Quick intro, and then a question;
>>>
>>>We use tomcat to host java web applications at our
>>
>>location. My client
>>
>>>requires us to follow very strict rules for deploying
>>
>>software, that means
>>
>>>it can be a documentation intensive process (evidence
>>
>>gathering/ IQP's etc
>>
>>>....). So we rarely upgrade as it is quite allot of
>>
>>work..... Luckily
>>
>>>tomcat is excellent and rarely needs upgrading or patching.
>>>
>>>Now the question;
>>>
>>>Tomcat 4.1.29 seems to insist on added charset to the
>>
>>content type, even if
>>
>>>a Content-Type has been set using response.setContentType or similar
>>>(without a charset). Tomcat 5 seems to do something
>>
>>similar judging from
>>
>>http://www.mail-archive.com/tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org/msg4
>>9015.html but
>>
>>>I think it fails to check if the Content type is a text one
>>
>>(HTML) and adds
>>
>>>it for any content type, which would appear not to be right IMHO.
>>>
>>>Without wishing to appear rude :-) I need to change this
>>
>>behaviour and
>>
>>>remove the insertion of the charset for non text based
>>
>>Content-Types eg:
>>
>>>application/vnd.ms-excel
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Re: Intro/question possible buglet with Content-Type and Charsets
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Posted by Tim Funk <fu...@joedog.org>.
Instructions added to http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24970
-Tim
Tim Funk wrote:
> Yeah, nagoya.apache.org seems down. Hopefully it will be back soon. The
> bug has good detail of what and how to fix.
>
> -Tim
>
> Greg.Cope@pfizer.com wrote:
>
>> Thanks Tim,
>>
>> Having a little trouble getting anything from bugzilla, nagoya.apache.org
>> seems to be having a little trouble!
>>
>> Looking in the archives for this id, I see that someone has a 4.1.29
>> patch
>> and a complied class, but cannot see either email address or content
>> via the
>> archive.
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