Problem invoking CGIs that are EXE files

[Jason Young <ja...@inet.com>]

I have Tomcat 4.0.3 installed on a Solaris 8 box, and have been trying 
to set up the CGI functionality. I have a 3rd party web application that 
has binary executables, all of which are named <filename>.exe. Don't get 
me started on why a unix binary would have an ".exe" file extension...

The problem is that Tomcat is always returning the binary to the 
browser, instead of executing it. Simply changing the extension of the 
binary to ".sh" (renaming the binary) will cause Tomcat to actually 
execute it. However, I would like to not have to modify this 3rd party 
app, since much of their HTML references these cgi's...

I cannot see a difference in my configuration that would cause Tomcat to 
work correctly with ".sh" files, and not ".exe" files. My cgi servlet 
mapping should be causing the execution of all files that match the 
/cgi-bin/* pattern.

Are there just some file extensions that Tomcat will not try to execute? 
I looked at the source code, and couldn't find any reference to ".exe" 
files that would exclude them from execution...

Thanks for any help or insight into this matter!

Jason Young

Inet Technologies, Inc.
1500 N Greenville Ave
Richardson, TX 75081


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