On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 10:28 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 12:41 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > Even though I have installed alfrescoext-0.91.xpi extension into > > firefox-1.5.0.12-6.el5.centos I cannot view .DOC or .ODT in a web > > page, it only offers to download (yes, I have restarted firefox). > > That might simply be a server MIME issue. Server MIME descriptions > really are the ultimate description of what something is, not the > filename suffix. It can be hairy trying to subvert that (proper) > process. > > Try: lynx --head <address of your file> > e.g. lynx --head http://example.com/files/test.doc > > See what content-type description you get from the server. There's a > fair chance it's going to be the default text/plain. It should really > be an accurate description, instead. And your handler should be > expecting an accurate description. Anything else and you're playing pot > luck. ---- I wouldn't know where to begin on tomcat5 on this, but I suspect that the lack of documentation of this issue from Alfresco suggests that this isn't the issue. I can't perform your suggestion without disabling authentication because it won't allow that to work without signing on first. Craig
