Re: doc2html not being called?

G. T. Stresen-Reuter wrote:
> Reviewing the output from -vvvv I see this line:
>
> Header line: Content-Type: text/plain
>
> The .doc parser is triggered by a content-type of application/msword.
>
> Using Firefox with the web developer extensions installed (or using 
> telnet and manually sending an HTTP request) you can see what 
> content-type headers Apache is really sending for Word documents. If 
> it is not sending application/msword (and it appears that it is not), 
> then the doc2html.pl script will not be triggered...
>
> Let us know if that is the problem. Note that depending on your 
> version of Apache, how to configure it to send the right header 
> varies... check the documentation to find out how to do it.
>
The version of Apache is 1.3.27-8. This is an SMEserver system (aka 
E-Smith), which is based on RH 7.3.  I have looked in /etc/mime.types 
and can see that there is no entry for application/msword.  I have added 
one and restarted apache.  And it works!!

Many thanks for your help.

-- 
Cheers

Brian

http://www.abandonmicrosoft.co.uk



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