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DO NOT REPLY [Bug 24970] New: - charset appended to content-type even if not text/*

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charset appended to content-type even if not text/*

           Summary: charset appended to content-type even if not text/*
           Product: Tomcat 4
           Version: 4.1.29
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Critical
          Priority: Other
         Component: Connector:Coyote HTTP/1.1
        AssignedTo: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: skoehler@upb.de


A JSP-Page (or Servlet) like

  <%
    response.setContentType("application/pdf");
  %>
  wurst

results in the Content-Type-Header
  
  Content-Type: application/pdf;charset=ISO-8859-1

which is not allowed according to HTTP-RFCs. The charset may only be appended
when the Content-Type is "text/*".

It causes bad behaviour with IE, that's this can be critical for some Servlets.

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