Question

I have a home page home.html inside a war file named “webapp-1.0.war”. When the browser requests “http://domain/myapp” I want the home.html served up, but I want the browswer address bar to continue to display “http://domain/myapp“. I DO NOT want “http://domain/myapp/home.html” in the address bar.

So I put this into the web.xml:

<welcome-file-list>
  <welcome-file>home.html</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list> 

And I added a jboss-web.xml with the following:

<jboss-web>
  <context-root>myapp</context-root>
</jboss-web>

This almost works. When the browser requests “http://domain/myapp” the home.html is sent, but the mime type is application/octet-stream instead of text/html, and this makes Firefox think it is a file download.

Answer 1

“octet-stream” is the default mime-type in Restlet. The “html” is defined in the default mapping. Looks like you have your own MetaDataService. You can add extension mappings like this,

getMetadataService().addExtension("html", MediaType.TEXT_HTML, true);