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Can I associate a servlet with a particular mime-type, so if the client requests a file of that type, my servlet will be executed?

April 26, 2017Associate client executed file mime-type particular requests servlet type

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Can I associate a servlet with a particular mime-type, so if the client requests a file of that type, my servlet will be executed?

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In web.xml you can use a mime-mapping to map the type with a certain extension and then map the servlet to that extension. e.g.