Hi,
I have a pipeline that needs to serve up static files of any type from a
particular directory. And yes, I know it'd be more efficient to just have
the web server do it, but we don't control the server that hosts it and
there's constraints on the configuration & deployment process that mean we
have to do it this way. Previously, I was using a matcher for each file
extension, and specifying the corresponding mime-type parameter in the
map:read. However, I gather that if no mime-type is specified the resource
reader is supposed to determine the mime type automatically using
inputSource.getMimeType() on the (Excalibur) Source. So I tried replacing
my multiple matchers with just
<map:match pattern="staticfiles/**">
<map:read src="files/{1}"/>
</map:match>
For PDFs and image files, this works just fine. However, MS
Word/Excel/Powerpoint files are displayed as text/binary within the browser
window rather than prompting to download or open them in the relevant
application. SWF files are also displayed as text rather than in the Flash
player/plugin. This appears to be because the Content-Type header is being
sent back as "text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" rather than e.g.
application/vnd.ms-excel
I haven't checked every file type we use (yet) so there may be others that
also have the problem.
Is this a known limitation of the resource reader? Does it only recognise
certain file types, or is there something else going on I'm not aware of
(e.g. missing some configuration somewhere)? I'm using Cocoon 2.1.7,
although the current SVN version on the 2_1_X branch doesn't appear to be
any different.
Andrew.
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