We've recently had a similar problem with Word. It seems that when a .doc
link is clicked, Word is handed the request to download. It establishes its
own server connection and then proceeds to fire the server with numerous
HTTP requests. On examination, it seems these are Word probing for Frontpag
Laurens Pit wrote:
> Can someone get this to the developers? Thanks.
>
The most likely scenario is that JRun has a predefined MIME mapping that tells
it to download Word documents as "application/ms-word", and Tomcat doesn't. To
change this, add an appropriate entry in
$TOMCAT_HOME/conf/web.xm
Can someone get this to the developers? Thanks.
After some more research I do believe there's a bug in Tomcat somewhere. I
hosted my simple servlet in Allaire's JRun on Windows 2000, and it works
fine. Also when I host the servlet in Netscape's IPlanet it works fine. See
the code of the servlet b
It could be that, however I do notice:
1. When I check with Network Monitor to see the actual bytes that are
received over the internet it shows that the Word document is send
completely. Also, the server reports that it has send the document (the
number of bytes send are equal to the size of th
Just a guess, but try setting the content type to application/msword
instead of application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
Juan
CPC Livelink Admin wrote:
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> Is it just word, or excel, powerpoint, etc too? Could this be the Frontpage
> extentions/Office SP1a bug rearing it's ugly head? This bug cause
Is it just word, or excel, powerpoint, etc too? Could this be the Frontpage
extentions/Office SP1a bug rearing it's ugly head? This bug causes issues
when Word tries to download the file, but it doesn't share the same browser
cookies/sessions and so it gets sent to a login page or something els
