RE: Domino HTML Pages (via Agents) Served by IBM HTTP

Mike, Thanks for the response.
Having the IBM HTTP Server serve the DOmino web application is working just
fine, other than the issue described below about agents sending out HTML.
The PASS directives to the Domino .cab  files for the icons, and applets was
very important.

I have made an initial attempt for your suggestions about setting up the
mime types in the IBM HTTP Server Instance configuration, but it has not
solved the problem.   It has given me some ideas of areas/things to try and
investigate.   I will have to do that at a different time of the day, time
for the Domino site to be up and available again.
 
The agents  that are called do not have an extension so the resulting file
that the IBM HTTP Server gets from Domino does not have an extension.   I
will try the suggestion of an .html extension on the agent name ( would
require a lot of rework if that becomes the only solution) just to see if
the probelm does seem to be related to file extension, or the lack thereof.

Thanks again for the response !!!  It has given me some things to try.

Fred.


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From: MEovino@ESTES-EXPRESS.COM [mailto:MEovino@ESTES-EXPRESS.COM]
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 1:52 PM
To: DOMINO400@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Domino HTML Pages (via Agents) Served by IBM HTTP





Fred, since no one has attempted to answer this, I'll give it a shot.  I
have no idea if I'm right, since I've never tried this, but even a blind
pig finds an acorn now and again.

But before I start, how is it working, using IBM HTTP Server instead of the
Domino HTTP stack (aside from the issues you've raised below)?

>We have some Domino databases running on an AS/400 that use agents to
>generate HTML to display reports.  The Agents are invoked via a URL on a
>Domino form.  When the Domino HTTP server is used for these databases the
>HTML Reports get displayed without any interruption from the browser.
>When the Domino Server is reconfigured to use the IBM HTTP server the
>browser interrupts the flow saying that you have requested to open a file
>(named for the agent), do you want to save it to a file or open it where
it
>exists.  When you say to open i, you are prompted to choose the helper
>application to use to view the file.  By choosing a browser the HTML
report
>is shown in a new browser window and looks fine.

It sounds like a MIME type issue, or rather, that the IBM HTTP Server
thinks it should have a MIME type issue.  The file that you're prompted to
download, does it have an extension?  If so, what is it?  Could it be that
the Domino server is handing the IBM HTTP server this file, and because it
does not have an extension, the IBM HTTP server doesn't know how to serve
it?  If you look in WRKHTTPCFG, do you have entries that look anything like
this?

AddType  *.*       www/unknown                          # Try to guess
AddType  *         www/unknown                          # Try to guess

I think (and I could be wrong) these tell the server that if it can't find
anything else, try the browser.

Another thing you might try is to end the name of the agent with .htm.  So
if your agent name was "foo," try "foo.htm."  This might fool the IBM HTTP
Server into thinking that this thing really is an HTML file and serve it up
as such.

Let me know if any of this works,

Mike E.




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