Re: [regrep-comment] MIME Types for ExtrinsicObject.

[John Silva <johns@anr.ms.philips.com>]

  Uday,

   I'm not sure if this is the best answer, but just trying to draw from 
the typical
web server behavior ...   Typically a web server has a default MIME type 
configured
for any file type (i.e. extension) it doesn't know.   Many a web server 
defaults this
to text/plain (in the 'old' days of NCSA web servers), others (maybe 
'these days')
tend to default this to application/octet-stream, which seems to be the 
most appropriate
thing to do !!!

    JohnS

Uday Subbarayan wrote:

> In the ebxml registry/repositry, I found that the MIME type for the 
> ExtrinsicObject is NOT mandatory. This leads to a problem when I 
> implement the REST interface to the ebxml reg/rep.
> The problem in the REST implementation is that ,(for example)when I 
> construct & send back the HttpResponse back to the client for the 
> "getRepositoryItem" method of the QueryManager, the MIME type should 
> be set correctly. From the RepositoryItem object I will get the 
> DataHandler and then stream the response back to the client.
>
> If the RepositoryItem is "ExtrinsicObject", and if the MIME type is 
> *null*, then there is a problem  to set the correct MIME type. It 
> would be bit hard to find out & set the correct MIME type(which MIME 
> type for which object) and this can easily be solved if the MIME type 
> is forced as "mandatory" for the ExtrinsicObject.
>
> Thank you,
> -Uday Subbarayan.
> uday.s@sun.com
> Contributor to http://ebxmlrr.sourceforge.net/contributors.html
>
>
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