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[Jo Størset <storset@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den 30. mars 2010 kl. 13.42 skrev Jason Pickering:

> I got this message while trying to import a DHIS 1.4 file..
> 
> * WARN  13:37:02,027 Content type not allowed: application/octet-stream (ImportAction.java [http-8080-5])
> 
>  I suspect this might be a Tomcat security issue, but at least we should document it.
>  
> Suggestions?

Basically, when uploading a file, the client (browser) reports a content type for the file uploaded. In this case your browser is reporting a file of type application/octet-stream, which the code does not allow (currently it accepts "application/x-zip-compressed", "application/zip", "application/x-gzip" and "text/xml").

This is a bit of a tricky area... I you are sitting on windows, I would guess you were uploading a file without a file type extension. As a quick fix, try to add the correct file type extension or use a different browser (though I guess we only officially support firefox for now).

I guess we maybe shouldn't care about the browser reported content type here. We know what we are looking for, so we should have other means of checking the content type. Bob has been looking at the import module architecture, maybe he has an opinion when he's back from Barcelona.

Jo

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