Excel file not opening in Tomcat 4.1.29

[Vasudevan Gopalan]

Hi,
I am using tomcat 4.1.29.When i try to open an excel file from browser it is showing like a text file.Word files are opening properly.I have seen someone posted the same problem in Tomcat forum but i am unable to find the solution for it.Someone please help me on this..
Thanks in Advance.

Regards
Vasudevan
[ January 12, 2004: Message edited by: Vasudevan Gopalan ]

[krishnakittu kanth]

please find some other means rather than sticking to 4.1.29.
bye..
cheers.

[William Brogden]

1. is your browser configured to treat xls files by opening excel?
2. does your web.xml file in the ../conf directory have an entry in the mime-mapping list for "xls" file type? Mine doesn't - so I can't tell you exactly what to use.
Bill

[James Laughlin]

Hey all. I just wanted to post an update to this thread because I had the same problem recently and had a hard time finding any information about it anywhere on the web.

I modified my web.xml file to add a mime-mapping element for xls extensions with a mime type of application/msexcel.

I restarted Tomcat and it works great.

Thanks to you all for your assistance.