Priya,
I checked the web.xml in the conf folder of tomcat and set the mime-type correctly. Here is the part of that web.xml file from the conf folder of tomcat,
I'm getting "application/octet-stream" as the response when I request for the resource. If you see the italicized part in the file above, you will find "application/octet-stream" and I'm getting this as the response...
[ May 02, 2007: Message edited by: Jothi Shankar Kumar Sankararaj ]
[ May 02, 2007: Message edited by: Jothi Shankar Kumar Sankararaj ]