Re: getting the JDK built-in web server to set the correct mime type

[Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>]

On 04/30/2013 10:55 PM, alex mitchell wrote:
> Hi Per,
>
> No problem, I figured this was probably done some time back so it might be
> hard to remember why it was commented out.
>
> I tried re-enabling it, and the first problem was that there is no
> variable "context". It might be referring to hctx, but I'm not sure. The
> only implementation of getMimeType I could find is in CGIServletWrapper,
> which is only a stub:
>    public String getMimeType (String file) { return null; }
>
> So I'm guessing its commented out because it was not implemented yet.

That sounds right ...

> This assumes that the user has a .mime.types file in one of several
> possible locations as described here
> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/activation/MimetypesFileType
> Map.html, otherwise only a minimal number of mime types are recognized.
>
>
> The other options that I came across when searching involved using
> java.net.URLConnection.guessContentTypeFromName(path) and/or
> java.net.URLConnection.guessContentTypeFromStream(resourceStream), but
> these seemed to be wrong most of the time.
>
> I'm not sure if this is the best way of doing this. Any suggestions?

I found a webpage suggesting using java.nio.file.Files.html#probeContentType
This does require Java 7.

I'll explore more later.
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