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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by Srinivas Reddy <sr...@ensoftek.com> on 2001/08/03 00:24:01 UTC

Problem in Viewing .doc file in TOMCAT

i have a simple application running on Tomcat. I opened a browser and there
is an clickable link which is of type doc say

<a href="javascript:ClickView('/purejsp/servlet/FileView/test.doc')"> test
</a>

when i click test it opens up in a browser as plain text but i want browser
to open up in a word file.
Samething works fine if i use APACHE+TOMCAT.

then i though i need to set MIMETYPE for this in tomcat and  i added
following thing in to web.xml. (surprisingly there are entries for simple
html/htm/rtf ........ but there is no entry for doc)
   <mime-mapping>
        <extension>
            doc
        </extension>
        <mime-type>
                application/msword
        </mime-type>
   <mime-mapping>

but still  it is not working.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

regards
-srini