My struts app went crazy on Internet Explorer

[Michael Gavryuchkov]

Hi All!

I started a new struts/tiles application a week ago and have been using Mozilla Firefox for testing. Yesterday I tried to check if it works on IE and my home.do triggered IE to start download and eventually I got the popup message Internet Explored cannot download home.do from localhost. Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again later.

Another funny thing happened when I tried to open the same page on Netscape: it opened it in MS Excel.

I have the MIME content set like this:
<META content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv=Content-Type>

What could be the problem? Please help!!!


[ October 08, 2004: Message edited by: Michael Gavryuchkov ]

[sreenath reddy]

Hi

can u clearly tell us whats happening ?? means ur not able to access any servlet in IE r is it that while u want to download some file thorugh ur app,its happening that u r able to download in netscape but the same is not happening in IE

[Michael Gavryuchkov]

What I am trying to do is to simply access my 'home.do' from Internet Explorer. This 'home.do' contains home.jsp, HomeAction.java, HomeForm.java. It is configured the following way in struts-config.xml:

<form-beans>
<form-bean name="homeForm" type="home.HomeForm"/>
</form-beans>
 
  
<action-mappings>
 

<action path="/home" type="home.HomeAction" name="homeForm" input="home" validate="false">
<forward name="success" path="home" />
</action>
 
etc...

And in tiles-definitions.xml:

<definition name="home" extends="baseDef">
       <put name="body" value="/jsp/home/home.jsp" />
<put name="title" value="Home" />
<put name="actionPath" value="/home" />
</definition>

When I call http://localhost/myapp/jsp/home/home.jsp it works fine, when I call http://localhost/myapp/home.do Internet Explorer instead of showing the page starts downloading against my will (and I have no code to trigger downloading).

Again, Mozilla works as I want it to work.

[sreenath reddy]

Hi

can u paste ur action class ?? and by the way are u using <controller element in ur struts-config.xml if so can u pls paste that line also

[Michael Gavryuchkov]

HomeAction.java:

package home;
 
import java.util.*;
 
import javax.servlet.http.*;
 
import org.apache.struts.action.*;
//import org.apache.struts.util.MessageResources;
 
//import commons.*;
//import framework.*;
 
public class HomeAction extends Action {
 
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------//
public ActionForward execute(
ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form,
HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)throws Exception {

System.out.println("HomeAction.execute called.");
//request.setAttribute("names", names);

return mapping.findForward("success");
}
 
 
}
 

controller:

  <controller>
    <set-property property="inputForward" value="false"/>
  </controller>

[ October 08, 2004: Message edited by: Michael Gavryuchkov ]