Serving XHTML with Cocoon - Another solution

Steve Krulewitz Tue, 23 Mar 2004 15:41:52 -0800

I really wasn't happy with using all that pipeline stuff just because Internet Explorer does not understand "application/xhtml+xml". In the non-Cocoon world, it seems like the answer to this problem is adding rewrite rules to Apache to modify the response based on the user agent. This is explained clearly in Mark Pilgrim's "The Road to XHTML 2.0: MIME Types" [1]. If you are not using Apache, another option is to use a servlet filter. The following code is more of a general content type replacer, and it works on Tomcat:

package com.skrul.filters;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import javax.servlet.Filter;
import javax.servlet.FilterChain;
import javax.servlet.FilterConfig;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.ServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.ServletResponse;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponseWrapper;

/* * Much of this code was borred from * http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-tomcat/?open&l=101,t=grj,p=TomcatTricks * */ public class IEContentTypeFilter implements Filter {

    String userAgent = null;
    Map replace = null;

public void init(FilterConfig fc) throws ServletException {

userAgent = fc.getInitParameter("useragent"); replace = new HashMap(); Enumeration e = fc.getInitParameterNames(); while(e.hasMoreElements()) { String key = (String) e.nextElement(); if(key.startsWith("search_")) { String a[] = key.split("_"); replace.put(fc.getInitParameter(key), fc.getInitParameter("replace_" + a[1])); } } replace = Collections.unmodifiableMap(replace); }

    public void doFilter(
        ServletRequest request,
        ServletResponse response,
        FilterChain chain)
        throws IOException, ServletException {

String browserDet = ((HttpServletRequest) request).getHeader("User-Agent").toLowerCase(); if (browserDet.indexOf(userAgent) != -1) { ReplaceContentTypeWrapper wrapped = new ReplaceContentTypeWrapper(response, replace); chain.doFilter(request, wrapped); } else { chain.doFilter(request, response); } }

    public void destroy() {
    }

    class ReplaceContentTypeWrapper extends HttpServletResponseWrapper {
        String search;
        Map replace;

public ReplaceContentTypeWrapper(ServletResponse inResp, Map replace) throws java.io.IOException { super((HttpServletResponse) inResp); this.replace = replace; }

        public void setContentType(String contentType) {
            if(replace.containsKey(contentType)) {
                super.setContentType((String) replace.get(contentType));
            }
            else {
                super.setContentType(contentType);
            }
        }
    }
}

You need to configure this in your web.xml, and the following lines must come under the web-app element but before the servlet element:

<filter>
  <filter-name>IEContentTypeFilter</filter-name>
    <filter-class>com.skrul.filters.IEContentTypeFilter</filter-class>
  <init-param>
    <param-name>useragent</param-name>
    <param-value>msie</param-value>
  </init-param>
  <init-param>
    <param-name>search_1</param-name>
    <param-value>application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8</param-value>
  </init-param>
  <init-param>
    <param-name>replace_1</param-name>
    <param-value>text/html; charset=utf-8</param-value>
  </init-param>
</filter>

<filter-mapping>
  <filter-name>IEContentTypeFilter</filter-name>
  <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

cheers,
-steve

[1] http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/03/19/dive-into-xml.html

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