Excel mime-mapping and SSL

[Tim Sodergren <ts...@terratek.com>]

Hello, all.

I am having trouble serving excel files with Tomcat 5.5.9. This site 
uses SSL with form-based authentication  through a JDBC user database, I 
have added the following to the application's WEB-INF/web.xml file:

  <mime-mapping>
    <extension>xls</extension>
    <mime-type>application/vnd.ms-excel</mime-type>
  </mime-mapping>

and the following to the META-INF/context.xml file:

        <Valve 
className="org.apache.catalina.authenticator.FormAuthenticator"
            disableProxyCaching="false" />

to deal with the IE SSL bug.

When trying to link to excel files, however, it appears IE is 
interpreting as text as all I get is a page of nonsense characters. This 
does not happen in Firefox (of course).

Am I missing something here?

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Tim Sodergren
Project Geophysicist
TerraTek, Inc.
1935 S. Fremont Dr.
Salt Lake City, UT 84104

tsodergren@terratek.com
(801)584-2417