Well, you could probably use a filter to just that... Have the filter
trigger a servlet which reads the file and sets the content type.
Johan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Norbert Papke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 7:03 PM
Subject: NEWBIE: Default HTTP Content-Type
> I have just started to play around with the Orion server and am very
> impressed by it. Installation and configuration was a snap, performance
> and footprint are great. I have, however, noticed one ideosyncracy that I
> hope somebody will be able to help me with.
>
> I have some text files on my site that are part of a knowledge base.
> These files contain only ASCII characters, the excute permissions are not
> set, and the files do not have an extension. The Orion server delivers
> these files with an HTTP content type set to "application/octet-stream".
> Apache delivers these same files with a content type of "text/plain". The
> latter is preferable to me as it allows browsers to render the files. Is
> there any way to change the content type that Orion uses to deliver these
> files?
>
> Please note that changing the files (either by converting them to html or
> adding a file extension) is not really an option.
>
> Best regard,
>
> -- Norbert Papke.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
