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Internet Explorer wont recognise uppercase file extensions (Tomcat application)
Posted on 2016-08-18
I have a Ubuntu server running apache webserver and Tomcat; also Win7 client + IE11, FF, Chrome:
I understand that, as Ubuntu (Linux) differs upper from lowercase, it does make a diffence from default.jpg to default.JPG ..
Now in our Tomcat application thumbnails of *.JPG do not show up, but only in Internet Explorer (11).
Chrome and Firefox seem to not care very much - no problems.
So I guess I have to add the uppercase MIME types to the web.xml - but I would like to know, why/how IE handles MIME Types differently to other browsers?
Of couse, it is strongly entagled with Windows OS which itself also does not differ upper and lowercase.. So is the root cause of this, how the mime types are defined (in the registry?) and processed by different browsers (Chrome/FF handling MIME types on their own)?
Can somebody confirm this and/or give a more detailed reason?
I understand that, as Ubuntu (Linux) differs upper from lowercase, it does make a diffence from default.jpg to default.JPG ..
Now in our Tomcat application thumbnails of *.JPG do not show up, but only in Internet Explorer (11).
Chrome and Firefox seem to not care very much - no problems.
So I guess I have to add the uppercase MIME types to the web.xml - but I would like to know, why/how IE handles MIME Types differently to other browsers?
Of couse, it is strongly entagled with Windows OS which itself also does not differ upper and lowercase.. So is the root cause of this, how the mime types are defined (in the registry?) and processed by different browsers (Chrome/FF handling MIME types on their own)?
Can somebody confirm this and/or give a more detailed reason?
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That is very odd. I have never had that happen. The web server is the thing that recognizes the file names, the browser just sends them in the request. I don't think there are 'uppercase MIME' types. Can you give some sample files links that are loaded differently by IE and the other browsers?
Thanks for you comment.
Well, as Linux machines (= our webb/app server) are case sensitive. So are the MIME types:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9575756/servlet-for-file-upload-contenttype-returning-none-when-file-extension-in-ca
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I can give more than an example, this is the network traffic logged by IE, see attachment.
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So to fix this I would need to define uppercase MIME types in my tomcat web.xml.
But I would like to know, why IE handles this differently from Chrome/FF.
If I was very mean I would say: "Once again IE seems more stupid than any other browser"..
2016-08-19-09_43_19-Clipboard-johnen.jpg
Well, as Linux machines (= our webb/app server) are case sensitive. So are the MIME types:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9575756/servlet-for-file-upload-contenttype-returning-none-when-file-extension-in-ca
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I can give more than an example, this is the network traffic logged by IE, see attachment.
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So to fix this I would need to define uppercase MIME types in my tomcat web.xml.
But I would like to know, why IE handles this differently from Chrome/FF.
If I was very mean I would say: "Once again IE seems more stupid than any other browser"..
2016-08-19-09_43_19-Clipboard-johnen.jpg
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Several things. You are having a problem with file extensions, not MIME types. They are not the same. Here is the 'official' list of MIME types: https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml
If the 'mime-mapping' works for you, use it. But that is an artifact of Tomcat and/or JAVA.
There is no reason for IE and Firefox to be acting differently that I know of. On my Linux Apache sites, they don't act differently. Maybe if you capture the headers from both you will see a difference.
If the 'mime-mapping' works for you, use it. But that is an artifact of Tomcat and/or JAVA.
<mime-mapping>
<extension>JPG</extension>
<mime-type>image/jpeg</mime-type>
</mime-mapping>
There is no reason for IE and Firefox to be acting differently that I know of. On my Linux Apache sites, they don't act differently. Maybe if you capture the headers from both you will see a difference.
That's hair-splitting now :)
Case-sensitve handling of file extensions causing running into indefined MIME types..
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I noticed another thing, which might make a difference - you couldn't see on the first screenshot:
The image URL is like:
.../default.jpg?version=14
resp.
.../default.jpg?version=14
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Maybe Chrome and FF interpret the MIME type from "default.jpg" => ignoring the paramters and following extensions;
While IE takes "the last file extension it gets" => causing the difference of upper and lowercase...(?)
Case-sensitve handling of file extensions causing running into indefined MIME types..
--
I noticed another thing, which might make a difference - you couldn't see on the first screenshot:
The image URL is like:
.../default.jpg?version=14
resp.
.../default.jpg?version=14
--
Maybe Chrome and FF interpret the MIME type from "default.jpg" => ignoring the paramters and following extensions;
While IE takes "the last file extension it gets" => causing the difference of upper and lowercase...(?)
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All that is possible. I think the difference is Tomcat and whatever goes on there. I don't have any experience with Tomcat. My experience with hundreds of pages on Linux and Apache have never shown IE to have this problem. But I also have never used URLs like that. The only time I see URLs like that are when the first file name is actually a program and not an image.
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