Re: Default Content Type for extensionless files

From:
"fritz-bayer@web.de" <fritz-bayer@web.de>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
14 Jul 2006 01:59:23 -0700
Message-ID:
<1152867562.976471.285120@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>
pauledavis@gmail.com wrote:

Fritz,
I'd recommend that you use a servlet filter. You will still need
something that maps files to content types but, a servlet filter along
the lines of the following should get you going.

public class ContentTypeFilter implements Filter {

    public void doFilter(
        ServletRequest req,
        ServletResponse resp,
        FilterChain chain)
        throws IOException, ServletException {

        String contentType = lookupType(req);
        resp.setContentType(contentType);
        chain.doFilter(req,resp);
    }
    private String lookupType(ServletRequest req){
        // Implement me
        return "text/html"; // sample default value
    }
}

Just implement your content type lookup method, and add the reference
to the filter in your web.xml and you should be good to go.
hth


Hi Paule,

that's an option. I even took a shortcut and wrote it directly into the
servlet which delivers the files, since the content returned is always
html. A little bit jacky but so what.

However, I still get "text/plain". I guess that Tomcat or Apache is
overwritting the content type after I set it?

Fritz

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