On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 11:49 +1030, Tim wrote: > Tim: > >> See what content-type description you get from the server. There's a > >> fair chance it's going to be the default text/plain. > > Craig White: > > 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 wouldn't be too surprised if it were. There's a lot of silly > assumptions made about MIME, servers, and dumb configurations. I don't > mean you, unless you created the tomcat/alfresco packages yourself, but > those that set up these things. In the webserving world, it's quite > typical to serve out garbage in the hope that the client can sort it all > out for itself. Or for a server system to presume that the admin is > going to configure special MIME types, themselves. > > It might also depend on what you're meant to see in the browser. A plug > in to show that type of data in the browser window, or the server > pre-converting it to HTML so it just works. ---- considering that they have a 'button/link' that says 'View in Browser' and have created a firefox extension, suggests that they've considered all of this. Craig
