Did not get a response yet :(
Is this a dev list question or my assumptions are correct?
Cheers
Avlesh
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Avlesh Singh <avl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am using Struts 1.2.7
> I wrote a Filter which intercepts all requests and applies response headers
> (based on some external configuration) to it. All response headers applied
> in my Filter other than "Content-Type" were obeyed and sent to the client.
> Content-Type was always "text/html".
> After a lot of debugging, I realized the value for this particular header
> are always getting overwritten in the struts' RequestProcessor class.
> Underneath is the method which in my case turned out to be the "culprit"
>
>>
>> protected void processContent(HttpServletRequest request,
>> HttpServletResponse response) {
>> String contentType =
>> moduleConfig.getControllerConfig().getContentType();
>> if (contentType != null) {
>> response.setContentType(contentType);
>> }
>> }
>>
>
> Couple of questions:
>
> 1. Shouldn't this method also check if the response already has a
> contentType header applied or not? Is this a known bug, or am I missing
> something?
> 2. I subclassed the RequestProcessor and defined a controller in my
> struts config as <controller processorClass="com.me.MyRequestProcessor"/>.
> The class merely overrides the processContent method to check for an
> existing contentType. Am I doing it correctly, or is there some other way
> to
> achieve the desired behavour in my case.
>
> Cheers
> Avlesh
>
