Resent-Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 13:18:33 -0500
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 12:09:17 -0600 (CST)
From: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
To: Eric John Kuzniar <kuzniar@cs.unca.edu>
Cc: Brian Fowler <bfowler@coastnet.com>, java-linux@java.blackdown.org
Subject: Re: What does a provider have to provide for his server?
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On Sat, 20 Jan 1996, Eric John Kuzniar wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Jan 1996, Brian Fowler wrote:
> > What if anything is necessary for java apps to work on the provider's Web 
> > server? Is there any intervention necessary on his part. He is willing to 
> > help in any way necessary, I just have to tell him what is needed on his 
> > part.
> 
> 	Nope, nothing is necessary, it will serve up java apps just fine. 
> Just make sure you set the read permission appropriately on the class 
> files.
> 

For some servers it is necessary to get the MIME type right.  Each
document served via HTTP comes with a header specifying its MIME type.
Typically if a server doesn't recognize the file name suffix it sets
this to "text/plain".  This is clearly wrong for a java applet.  I
think most clients and some servers ignore this type, so everything
works, but it is a good idea to get it right.

There will presumably at some point be a specific MIME type for java
applets.  At present the correct type is "application/octet-stream".
How you get your server to use this type for files with suffix ".class"
depends on which server you are using.  But the sysadmin should be able
to do it.

John Franks 	Dept of Math. Northwestern University
		john@math.nwu.edu