alfresco integration

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Dec 10 00:39:19 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 10:28 +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 12:41 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > Even though I have installed alfrescoext-0.91.xpi extension into
> > firefox-1.5.0.12-6.el5.centos I cannot view .DOC or .ODT in a web
> > page, it only offers to download (yes, I have restarted firefox). 
> 
> That might simply be a server MIME issue.  Server MIME descriptions
> really are the ultimate description of what something is, not the
> filename suffix.  It can be hairy trying to subvert that (proper)
> process.
> 
> Try:  lynx --head <address of your file>
> e.g. lynx --head http://example.com/files/test.doc
> 
> See what content-type description you get from the server.  There's a
> fair chance it's going to be the default text/plain.  It should really
> be an accurate description, instead.  And your handler should be
> expecting an accurate description.  Anything else and you're playing pot
> luck.
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I wouldn't know where to begin on tomcat5 on this, but I suspect that
the lack of documentation of this issue from Alfresco suggests that this
isn't the issue.

I can't perform your suggestion without disabling authentication because
it won't allow that to work without signing on first.

Craig




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