Hi Bernd, I think your colleagues forgot/didn't want to set the content-type in the servlet(-code)?
text/plain is apache default for anything it doesn't know (if I recall correctly) If no content-type is set by the servlet, no content-type is delivered. No content-type set by the servlet causes *your browser* to start guessing. text/html is a pretty solid guess for a browser. Often a servlet can only generate one kind of content-type. If that's the case there's no point in making it configurable. However, you could use mod_headers to have this set/added by apache . . . Best Regards, Martin
