Xls mime problem

["Maciejewski, Vincent \(GMI - NY Governments\)" <Vincent_Maciejewski (at) ml.com>]

> Hello, I have this weird problem. 
> 
> I want to get tomcat to correctly set the mime type for xls files. So
> I added 
> 
>     <mime-mapping>
>         <extension>xls</extension>
>         <mime-type>application/vnd.ms-excel</mime-type>
>     </mime-mapping>
> 
> To the conf/web.xml file.
> 
> The odd thing is that wen I access an xls file using the browser with
> the following url:
> http:/localhost/filename.xls it works fine.
> 
> When I use
> http:/servname.com/filename.xls it doesn't. I just get the binary
> contents of the file.
> 
> Did anyone else have this problem? I something set up incorrectly?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Vincent
>
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