How to communicate servlets with windows media player

Question

I am new to web programming I am developing an application through which a client can play media file.
I am getting problem in,how to communicate servlet through windows media player.
I have developed the basic architecture of my application using tiger server,now I want to open media file through windows media player using openURL option(http request).
Can any body guide me how to build a servlet which can listen this request and how to respond appropriately
Please Reply.

Answer 1

Check out the java doc for HttpServletResponse
http://java.sun.com/j2ee/sdk_1.3/techdocs/api/javax/servlet/http/HttpServletResponse.html
Your sevlet will have to set the response contentType to the appropriate mime type
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwmt/html/mime.asp
and contentLength to the file size (in bytes), then open the mp3/wma file and write the bytes to the servlet output stream.
You could also choose to return an asx file (an xml document containing a url of the media file), and windows media player will automatically lookup the mp3/wma file stored on your web server.