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alla winter wrote: > I am confused now > web.xml instructs Tomcat what application needs to be called for a given > MIME type Nope. This is mapping file extensions to MIME types. Totally different. Notice that you don't see "msword.exe" anywhere in the MIME type mapping. > Tomcat pass the request to the third party application based on the MIME > type, so if I show the link to the .RTF file and the user selects the link, > the Microsoft Word will display the selected file. This is all done by your web browser, in a totally different way. > My undesraning is that by writing file bytes to the servlet output, I am > just creating and HTML file where the file content is a body of the HTML Wrong again. You are serving bytes. As long as you tell the browser the proper MIME type (via the Content-Type HTTP header), everything will work out just fine. > Unless I am missing something here... Yes, you are confusing what happens on the server with what happens on the client. > As far as directory listing - yes, I do see the directory listing for all > folders that are underneath of my application except WEB-INF and I didn't do > any special set up for that - I am using all default XMLs except the > web.xmlwhere I am defining my servlets. Perhaps Tomcat 5.0 still has the "default" servlet enabled by default. We'll deal with that once your bigger problems are taken care of. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG+q7N9CaO5/Lv0PARAgoIAKDAr/mnYf8TWjInLN12jtAKJjNf0wCdHk53 b2zMBXhWML72FQ2jV8CfeZY= =p+yb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
