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[Jo Størset <storset@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den 30. mars 2010 kl. 16.43 skrev Jason Pickering:

> Typically in the past, when I have seen this error message, I have added this to the web.xml file of Tomcat..
> 
>     <mime-mapping>
>         <extension>zip</extension>
>         <mime-type>application/application-octet</mime-type>
>     </mime-mapping>

Ah, ok, that's the other way around, the content type set on resources tomcat is serving.

For file uploads, the content type of the request is multipart/form-data, with the uploaded file + content type in the request body. So generally it is not something the server container wants to mess with. We basically have three choices:
1) trusting what the client is reporting
2) have our own way of deducing based on the content itself (can be tricky and require resources on the server side).
3) have a separate form field, where the user explicitly states the file format

I guess we might want a combination of 2 and 3 for our use cases.

Jo

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