Bug 45996

Summary:	allow byte serving with HTTP response header
Product:	Tomcat 5	Reporter:	Vitor Swaid <vitor.swaid>
Component:	Catalina	Assignee:	Tomcat Developers Mailing List <dev>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P5
Version:	5.5.27
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description Vitor Swaid 2008-10-13 04:39:30 UTC

Hi,

On the dev-tomcat list I described in the topic "Byte Serving and PDFs with the DefaultServlet" an issue that I had with Tomcat to serve PDFs.

Analysing the answers I could find that the matter was related to the case of the file extension. Today Tomcat is case sensitive for MIME type extensions.

So the solution for me was enter two MIME specifications on the web.xml file. One is for "pdf" and another one for "PDF".

This way I would like to ask for and request for enhancement to make Tomcat be able to, due a setup on configuration file, consider or not case for MIME type extensions.

About the HTTP response header, I would like to have "useAcceptRanges" Feature as default for src.share.org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet. It was already added on Tomcat after 6.0.18.

Regards,

Vitor

Comment 1 Mark Thomas 2008-10-13 04:58:32 UTC

I've propose a backport of the Accept-Ranges fix for 5.5.x

Comment 2 Mark Thomas 2008-11-01 17:59:06 UTC

Making MIME type matching case insensitive is an enhancement so I will change the severity of this bug once the accept range fix has been applied

Comment 3 Konstantin Kolinko 2009-01-02 08:37:58 UTC

There are two issues in OP's report.

The 'making MIME type matching case insensitive' part of this issue is addressed as bug #45995. Thus I narrowed the Summary.

Comment 4 Mark Thomas 2009-06-03 14:02:23 UTC

This has been fixed in 5.5.x and will be included in 5.5.28 onwards.