Actually Mozilla and Netscape can open Excel and Powerpoint based upon the .xls or .ppt extension if the mime-type is not set. However IE only opens them properly if you add the mime-type to web.xml. Otherwise you get a browser full of garbled text. I find this most amusing. (They may have fixed this in IE 6.0).
Charlie > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 11:30 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: How to serve static EXCEL or POWERPOINT files from Tomcat ? > > Wouldn't you just have a URL link to the actual files in your HTML? The > browser should be smart enough to open up the appropriate application and > display it, since it will recognize its extension/mime-type. > > bruno > > -----Original Message----- > From: ext Vitor Buitoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 10:07 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: How to serve static EXCEL or POWERPOINT files from Tomcat ? > > > Hi, > > Probably your browser is misconfigured. I don't think this is a tomcat > issue. > Check the file type associations in your browser and make sure that xls > files are configured to be opened by msexcel. > Also check the .doc file association, if it is opening properly, it > should be configured to be opened by msword. > > Vitor > > Enrique MARTIN wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I am trying to serve .xls and .ppt files from tomcat so that the browser > >opens the right application (excel and powerpoint respectively) . What I > >obtain instead is that the byte content is sent by the web server and > this > >content is then interpreted as text by the browser. > >For the .doc files, on the other hand, I have the desired behavior: word > >opens. > > > >Does anybody know how to obtain from tomcat this behavior? > > > >Thanks, > >Enrique. > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
