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[Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jo,
Well, it it just a zip file. That is what does not make a lot of sense.

It has the zip extension. ????

I would agree that we should probably just ignore it, or  allow it. I tried
adding it to the main web.xml file, but this did not work.

Regards,
Jason


On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Jo Størset <storset@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> 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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