Re: Download Graphing Utility (Complimentry Copy)

From:
"Andrew Thompson" <u32984@uwe>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:38:53 GMT
Message-ID:
<7a2bd698c5f7d@uwe>
Dexter wrote:

I have added a link to this on opening pagehttp://www.britishcomputercolleges.com

...

Try this link http://www.britishcomputercolleges.com/vu/grapheasy.jnlp


Yes. I see it now.

The testpage is http://britishcomputercolleges.com/vu/testjnlp.html

This simply return the xml nothing else, so it must be what you said
of the server not returning MIME format


OK - strong suspicions are good, but facts are better.

In cases like this, I surf on over to Roedy's site to the
neat little mime-type checker applet.
<http://mindprod.com/jgloss/mime.html>

If we click 'OK' for the trusted code, paste the JNLP
URL into the top text field then click to 'Test' the
server, we can see.. yep.

server MIME type: text/plain
proper MIME type: application/x-java-jnlp-file

That server is definitely returning the wrong
content-type for JNLP files.

Ask your server people (very nicely) to add
'application/x-java-jnlp-file' for file type 'jnlp',
and we should be able to see it launched,
rather than rendered as XML in the browser.

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Andrew Thompson
http://www.athompson.info/andrew/

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