Re: [Bodington-developers] Bodington peer-marking tool

[Matthew B. <mat...@ou...>]

Matthew Buckett wrote:
> Peter Crowther wrote:
> 
>>>From: Matthew Buckett
>>>resp.setContentType("text/comma-separated-values");
>>
>>
>>RFC4180 registers 'text/csv' as the MIME type for CSV.  This works in
>>IE6 and Firefox 1.06 on Windows, I've not tested it further.  I'd not
>>found another type that worked in both.
> 
> 
> text/comma-separated-values came from the /etc/mime.types on my Linux
> box. Thinking about this a little more you should probably do.
> 
> resp.setContentType(BuildingServer.getInstance().getMimeType("marks.csv"))
> 
> This way the mapping setup for the container will be used for CSV file
> you generate, otherwise if we have to switch to fix a browser bug it
> will mean changing the code in lots of places.
> 
> In fact all resp.setContentType should probably do this that are used
> for generated file.

Looking at the code it seems like Bodington frequently sends XML back
with a mime type of text/plain rather than the more traditional
application/xml. Is there a reason for this? Examples of this include
when it generates menu.xml and filelisting.xml files.

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