Thanks Tim, Having a little trouble getting anything from bugzilla, nagoya.apache.org seems to be having a little trouble!
Looking in the archives for this id, I see that someone has a 4.1.29 patch and a complied class, but cannot see either email address or content via the archive. Ho hum.... Thanks for the pointer. Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 16 December 2003 12:31 > To: Tomcat Developers List > Subject: Re: Intro/question possible buglet with Content-Type and > Charsets. > > > http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24970 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Quick intro, and then a question; > > > > We use tomcat to host java web applications at our > location. My client > > requires us to follow very strict rules for deploying > software, that means > > it can be a documentation intensive process (evidence > gathering/ IQP's etc > > ....). So we rarely upgrade as it is quite allot of > work..... Luckily > > tomcat is excellent and rarely needs upgrading or patching. > > > > Now the question; > > > > Tomcat 4.1.29 seems to insist on added charset to the > content type, even if > > a Content-Type has been set using response.setContentType or similar > > (without a charset). Tomcat 5 seems to do something > similar judging from > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg4 > 9015.html but > > I think it fails to check if the Content type is a text one > (HTML) and adds > > it for any content type, which would appear not to be right IMHO. > > > > Without wishing to appear rude :-) I need to change this > behaviour and > > remove the insertion of the charset for non text based > Content-Types eg: > > application/vnd.ms-excel > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
