sorry all, i did more testing and found the cause to be because the text files i was requesting had uppercase extensions... ie. "TXT" rather than "txt".
and as expected a work-around was to add the following mime-mapping in conf/web.xml: <mime-mapping> <extension>TXT</extension> <mime-type>text/plain</mime-type> </mime-mapping> so sorry for the false alarm. :( sincerely, woodchuck <-- needs to improve on testing ____________________________________________________ Sell on Yahoo! Auctions no fees. Bid on great items. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]