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Posted to dev@tomcat.apache.org by bu...@apache.org on 2003/04/10 17:26:43 UTC
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Content Type set to "text/plain" when none explicitly assigned in the servlet
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Content Type set to "text/plain" when none explicitly assigned in the servlet
Summary: Content Type set to "text/plain" when none explicitly
assigned in the servlet
Product: Tomcat 4
Version: 4.1.24
Platform: PC
OS/Version: Other
Status: NEW
Severity: Normal
Priority: Other
Component: Connector:Coyote HTTP/1.1
AssignedTo: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
ReportedBy: kyiv@hotmail.com
The problem is that the new version of Tomcat (v4.1.18 or v4.1.24)
assigns "text/plain" content type to the response that is coming from a servlet
unless it was explicitly assigned within the servlet.
I think the change happened when Tomcat switched from HTTP/1.1 connector to
Coyote.
Tomcat 4.0.2 (and prior) doesn't supply any content type if none was explicitly
specified, and Tomcat 4.1.18 (and later, I didn't test versions in between)
sets it to "text/plain".
Because a browser is not supposed to guess for content type if it's specified
explicitly in the header (according to HTTP/1.1 spec), Netscape displays the
page that was generated by a servlet (by including a JSP) as a text if the
content type wasn't set to "text/html" in the servlet.
And again, the older version of Tomcat (v4.0.x) did not assigned content type,
if none was set in the servlet, and any browser was able to recognize it based
on the HTML tags.
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