Intro/question possible buglet with Content-Type and Charsets.

[Gr...@pfizer.com]

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/msg49015.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

Hence could someone give me some pointers / crash course as to which class I
need to patch to remove this?  

Thanks.


Greg Cope
GCS Ltd
Assign to: CIT, Sandwich - ISG
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Re: Intro/question possible buglet with Content-Type and Charsets.

[Tim Funk <fu...@joedog.org>]

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/msg49015.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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