On 11 Nov 2004 at 11:05, Kumar Pandey kumar.pandey-at-transerainc. wrote:
> Were able to get this fixed?.
> I have similiar issue with IE 6 just displaying svg from a servlet with mime
> type image/svg+xml.
>
> Downloading and opening the svg file works fine.
>
> Thanks
> Kumar
Hello Kumar ..
I was beginning to think that I was in a minority with my SVG display problem
in IE 6 ..
I received one "off list" suggestion (poster Lars not subscribed to the forum).
My thanks to Lars for his suggestion (but it was not suitable since it still
requires a renaming of file extension).
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<quote>
I also have this problem, and I found an ugly hack that works.
1. add this to <tomcat-root>\conf\web.xml:
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.svg</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
2. restart the tomcat server.
3. rename the <file>.jsp file to <file>.svg
Then http://<server:port>/<file>.svg will show nicely.
If you find a better solution, I will be happy to hear from you.
</quote.
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In fact, I have been configuring web.xml to try out similar ideas ..
Although IE browser will open a file with *.svg extension, I need to be able to
open the JSPX generated SVG file with extension jspx .. without having to
change the extension to svg.
I concluded that this was an IE 6 browser problem .. since only IE 6 fails to
open jspx generated svg files.
I had, in fact, read the link you found .. on IE 6 ..
http://wiki.svg.org/index.php/MimeType
which reads ..
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So, in order to have all browsers accept your content properly
1. make sure that all URLS end in .svg, including generated content (for
InternetExplorerBrowser --
for example, using a dummy parameter as in "http://mysvg.jsp?ielikes=.svg";);
and
2. set the MIME type on the server.
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also read here ..
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2003Apr/0030.html
"The main reason this is propagated is that IE (prior to v6) does not behave
properly in
respect to SVG and MIME types. IE (prior to v6) treats SVG as SVG when, and
only when,
the url ends in .svg, it doesn't care about MIME.
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In fact, to generate and render SVG server side I have moved away from using
jspx
(because of the above unsolved problem) .. and I am now using
php (yes, php running on Tomcat) to dynamically generate SVG server side.
here are two tutorials which I have followed with success ..
delivering svg across all browsers ..including IE 6
http://www.zend.com/zend/trick/tricks12apr.php
http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/samples/serverside_svg_php.shtml
and .. I have a php servlet running on Tomcat in CGI mode .. so I can now
generate the SVG server side using PHP.
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But .. for my education .. I would still like to get the jspx.svg example to
work in IE browsers.
In fact the SVG script is generated by this URL ....
http://localhost:8080/jsp-examples/jsp2/jspx/textRotate.jspx.html
So I guess using PHP I could use cURL function to scrape the screen and write
the source as a SVG file.
see here for an explanation of jspx.html usage ..
JSPX reference
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/04/21/JSP2part3.html
These new rules make it possible to write a JSP Document as a regular XHTML
file
(with JSP elements for the dynamic content, of course), for instance, without
having to
place all content within a <jsp:root> element.
You can even use .html as the extension for such files if you create a JSP
property group
declaration like this:
in web.xml ..
<jsp-config>
<jsp-property-group>
<url-pattern>*.html</url-pattern>
<is-xml>true</is-xml>
</jsp-property-group>
</jsp-config>
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for now .. PHP + SVG + Tomcat rules .. at least for my hybrid application!
of course PHP + SVG also works on Apache server (Apache server normally
associated with PHP) but I need to integrate SVG graphics as components in a
Tomcat hosted application.
d~l
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