Can't open Office 2007 files in Group Studio in IE
Thu, 2008-04-03 17:34 — joleary
Within Group Studio, Internet Explorer treats Office 2007 files (they have the extra 'x' on the extension: docx, pptx, etc..) as if they are .zip files. I've uploaded both a Power Point presentation (pptx) and a few Word Documents (docx), but when you click on them to open/download, Internet Explorer changes the extension to a zip (ex: Luminis.docx to Luminis.zip). We have seen this issue with both IE 6 and 7. Firefox does not have any problems with these files.
Has anyone else noticed a problem with Office 2007 documents, or found a workaround for this issue?
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mime types?
had this on a different web server, but we had to add new mime types to the web server config to match the new extensions. worth a look....
Got it
You were correct. All I had to do was to add the the following mime type to the web.xml file (\luminis\products\tomcat\tomcat-cp\conf\web.xml)
<mime-mapping>
<extension>docx</extension>
<mime-type>application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document</mime-type>
</mime-mapping>
Thanks!
mime types and office
We had a problem with office files (probably older than 2007) for IE generally (so for IE6 as well as IE7).
This was because the web-app-mapping.xml (?) was configured to send them as the wrong mime type (a jpg image)
This meant that although the browser received the entire office file, it never rendered it - since Office and IE are made by the same company there is some kind of shared assumption, so IE decides that there is some discrepancy (for example that it has a word file when it was expecting an image file) and gives a critical error. Of course the problem can easily be solved by using Firefox '-)
At the moment we have kept an error in the web.xml, web-apps.xml, web-app-mapping.xml so that these are served as general content rather than associated with any particular mime.
It is a long time ago that we had to fight this problem, but it sounds as if it still exists (and that you have a cleaner solution)
Derek