Interesting... I would have guessed bmp would be supported too. It
doesn't appear to be specific to JarURLConnection, raw file urls also
exhibit the same behavior.
Wow, last time content-types.properties was meaningfully changed was
1999, when PNG was added! I don't have any specific objection to adding it.
-Chris.
On 03/ 1/11 09:27 AM, Jing LV wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It is a little odd to me that I find OpenJDK JarURLConnection does not
> support bmp file. The testcase below:
>
> public static void main(String[] args) throws MalformedURLException,
> IOException {
> JarURLConnection conn = (JarURLConnection) new
> URL("jar:file:/somedir/somejar.jar!/somebmp.bmp").openConnection();
> System.out.printf("Returned type for the entry should be the known
> type " +
> "image/bmp, but it is " + conn.getContentType());
> }
>
> (Need create a somejar.jar containing a bmp file named somebmp.bmp)
>
> It should return image/bmp but it does not. I see we may add image/bmp
> support in the windows\lib\content-types.properties to make the testcase pass.
> However I am not sure if OpenJDK do want to support it, or there is some
> reason why OpenJDK don't?
>
>
