Re: Acrobat question clarification
Hi This happens to me too, though i use a NT machine. I normally do the foll: 1) clear the browsers cache, close the browser and restart it, it works fine. 2) (the first time i got this error), my acrobat could not launch. so i downloaded and reinstalled, since i was not sure about plugging in the browser. I think no special config is required, anyway i am not sure about a unix system. thanks ramesh _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Let me clarrify the problem. I am using Tomcat on a Unix system. I am using it stand-alone without Apache. I have 2 problems. I have an html file with links to serveral PDFs in it. When I click the link Tomcat loads the PDF into the browser as ascii text rather than launching Acrobat. If I navigate to the PDF without going through Tomcat, my Netscape Browser opens Acrobat and loads the PDF just fine. I have confirmed that there is a mime-type declaration in the web.xml file in the conf directory. My other problem is I have a unique image format that is having the same problem. If I navigate to it outside of Tomcat, Netscape will launch the application I have set up in the preferences file, but if I go through the server it loads the image file as ascii garbage in the browser. Is there something special that I need to do in the Tomcat configuration that I am missing? Thanks, Steve and NanetteGet your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
RE: Acrobat question clarification
Just to let you know. I tried what you explained: placing a link on a jsp page within tomcat to a .pdf file. It worked perfectly in IE5.5, Netscape 4.7 but not initially in Netscape 6. I manually set the path to acrobat and everything thereafter was fine. I have not made changes to the default mime-type mappings in the web.xml file. I cannot duplicate your problem. .pdf files are binary. What type of plain text are you getting? It should look like a bunch of strange characters with a text header, otherwise you may not have a valid .pdf file. Linux, tomcat-3.2.1 Good luck, Craig -Original Message- From: Randy Layman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 8:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Acrobat question clarification Add the mime-type mappings to the web.xml file in your webapp's directory, not the one in conf. Randy -Original Message- From: Steve G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 12:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Acrobat question clarification Let me clarrify the problem. I am using Tomcat on a Unix system. I am using it stand-alone without Apache. I have 2 problems. I have an html file with links to serveral PDFs in it. When I click the link Tomcat loads the PDF into the browser as ascii text rather than launching Acrobat. If I navigate to the PDF without going through Tomcat, my Netscape Browser opens Acrobat and loads the PDF just fine. I have confirmed that there is a mime-type declaration in the web.xml file in the conf directory. My other problem is I have a unique image format that is having the same problem. If I navigate to it outside of Tomcat, Netscape will launch the application I have set up in the preferences file, but if I go through the server it loads the image file as ascii garbage in the browser. Is there something special that I need to do in the Tomcat configuration that I am missing? Thanks, Steve and Nanette Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
RE: Acrobat question clarification
Add the mime-type mappings to the web.xml file in your webapp's directory, not the one in conf. Randy -Original Message- From: Steve G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 12:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Acrobat question clarification Let me clarrify the problem. I am using Tomcat on a Unix system. I am using it stand-alone without Apache. I have 2 problems. I have an html file with links to serveral PDFs in it. When I click the link Tomcat loads the PDF into the browser as ascii text rather than launching Acrobat. If I navigate to the PDF without going through Tomcat, my Netscape Browser opens Acrobat and loads the PDF just fine. I have confirmed that there is a mime-type declaration in the web.xml file in the conf directory. My other problem is I have a unique image format that is having the same problem. If I navigate to it outside of Tomcat, Netscape will launch the application I have set up in the preferences file, but if I go through the server it loads the image file as ascii garbage in the browser. Is there something special that I need to do in the Tomcat configuration that I am missing? Thanks, Steve and Nanette Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
