From: Rimantas Liubertas <rimantas@...>
Date: 2006-12-22T02:55:07+09:00
Subject: Re: WEBrick and swf files

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> When I access the file from Internet Explorer 6 (served from WEBrick),
> the swf file loads fine.  When I try from firefox, I am asked if I want
> to download the file.
>
> Here is what WEBrick logs when it serves the file:
>
> localhost - - [21/Dec/2006:10:11:22 CST] "GET /hello.lzx.swf HTTP/1.1"
> 304 0

Status code 304 "Not modified" means that server has the same version
of the file
as browser in it's cache. So in this case file won't be served and
browser will use
cached version.

> I checked in firefox options and it has swf files listed to be opened
> with shockwave flash.  I also added "swf"   =>
> "application/x-shockwave-flash" as a mime type in webrick (added to
> httputils.rb)

It would help to see full set of headers (you can use LiveHTTPHeaders
or Firebug extesnions for that), but I have a wild idea: can you try
to rename your swf from
hello.lzx.swf  to, say hello-lzx.swf maybe something along the path thinks that
.lzx is extension of the file, not .swf....


Regards,
Rimantas
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