It should be noted that while adding this fixed my test cases it
breaks the application when viewed from a browser.      :-\

I guess this is just the rails way.   Unless a specific accept header
is sent rails does not know what to return.

AFAIK there is no way to specify a default handler.  It seems safe to
assume that erb should be used when the Accept header doesn't map to a
specific mime-type. Is there a way to make this happen or is there a
reason this shouldn't be done?


On Dec 31 2010, 6:21 pm, Tony Primerano <[email protected]>
wrote:
> well.  adding
>
> Mime::Type.register "text/*", :html
>
> to config/initializers/mime_types.rb works but it gives a warning on
> startup
>
> actionpack-3.0.3/lib/action_dispatch/http/mime_type.rb:98: warning:
> already initialized constant HTML
>
> Seems like rails doesn't want us to extend the definition of an HTML
> mime type.   Probably for the better,  any suggestions.  I could ping
> thunderstone and have them fix their crawler but I'm wondering if
> there is a better way Rails an handle this case.
>
> On Dec 31, 4:47 pm, Tony Primerano <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > The thunderstone crawler (http://search.thunderstone.com/texis/
> > websearch/about.html) sends the folliowing HTTP accept header when
> > requesting pages
>
> > Accept: text/*, application/javascript, application/x-javascript
>
> > This results in a "Missing template" exception
>
> > text/* is valid.  How do I tell my rails app to treat this as rhtml by
> > default instead of returning a 500?
>
> > Missing template [controller]/[method] with
> > {:handlers=>[:erb, :rjs, :builder, :rhtml, :rxml], :formats=>[:"text/
> > *", :js], :locale=>[:en, :en]}
>
> > I'll post a response if I figure it out
> > Tony Primerano
>
>

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