typo: context type should be context type.

-----Original Message-----
From: Yansheng Lin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 3:15 PM
To: 'Tomcat Users List'
Subject: RE: Content type for jsp/html files


Totally!  With context type set to text/plain is not going to provent IE doing
something on its own.

The sure fix is to replace all the "<" with "&lt;".


-----Original Message-----
From: Antonio Fiol Bonn�n [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 12:41 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: Content type for jsp/html files


Johan Wallinder wrote:

>Hi.
>
>I've want to make a servlet that can display the source of any jsp/html
>file (not the rendered one). 
>
>Basically my code is like this:
>
>*set content type to text/plain
>*get PrintWriter object out
>*get the fileobject as an inputstream 
>*write to the out object
>*flush/close
>
>The code is working fine, but viewing the servlet execution in a
>browser, the content type is set to text/html which means that all tags
>are not displayed (hidden).
>
>How can I override this behavior. If I read a text file everything works
>fine. But if the file begins with an <html> tag, the contenttype is set
>to text/html. Is this a browser problem? 
>  
>

I'm afraid Internet Explorer is willing to play with you. ;-)

Try adding "nonsense.txt" to your URL, as in:

http://path/to/your/resource?nonsense.txt

IE has a horrible MIME behaviour. Live with it, or trash IE ;-)


Antonio Fiol


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