Web server and setting up mime type

Question

All,
We have written a httpd server program that handles http calls. I want to use this server to execute jnlps. I am confused as how to set the jnlp mime type on this server. Anybody has their own server and able to set the mime type? or is there any idea anyone has to set up mime type?
Please reply. It is very critical.
Thanks,
Rama

Answer 1

We have written a httpd server program that handles
http calls. I want to use this server to execute
jnlps. I am confused as how to set the jnlp mime type
on this server. Anybody has their own server and able
to set the mime type? or is there any idea anyone has
to set up mime type?This is easy. Your server does not execute the jnlps. It just tells Java Web Start (the jnlp client) this is a jnlp and then hands it the jnlp file.
For this the header part of the HTTP response needs to prove the jnlp mime type as content type.
Example:
If I log in by hand and hack in a request for a jnlp doc
$ telnet zope 8080
Trying 192.168.0.250...
Connected to zope
Escape character is '^]'.
GET http://zope:8080/public/GUI/WebStart/Versant.jnlp HTTP/1.0then the server replies with
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: Zope/Zope 2.2.2 (source release, python 1.5.2, linux2) ZServer/1.1b1
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:01:30 GMT
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/x-java-jnlp-file
Content-Length: 1223
Last-Modified: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 15:30:13 GMT
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jnlp spec="1.0+" codebase="http://zope:8080/public/GUI/WebStart" href="Versant
jnlp">
  <information>
  <!-- ... -->
</jnlp>
Connection closed by foreign host.You should use such a content type like above.
Regards,
Marc