On 10/15/07, David Delbecq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> alla winter a écrit :
> > I would appreciate if you would give me a hint, what should I do to make
> > browser to display excell spread sheet when href to .xls file is selected?
> > It displays the raw file insted.
> >
> > <a href="/cobra_source/beneficiary_template.xls"
> > target="_blank">Excel template </a>
> >
> > P.S. I am using Tomcat 5.0.28 and jdk 1.5.0._12
> >
> > thanks for your help
> >
> >
> in the web.xml of your webapplication, you should properly define the
> contentype for .xls files.
Specifically,
<mime-mapping>
<extension>xls</extension>
<mime-type>application/vnd.ms-excel</mime-type>
</mime-mapping>
In later versions of Tomcat, the default configuration has this mapping.
--
Len
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
