On 8 Oct 2002 at 9:19, David Adams wrote:
> A one-line change to doc2html.pl is needed to add this MIME-type.
>
> Change
>
> # Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
> if ($XLS2HTML) {
> $mime_type = "application/msexcel|application/vnd.ms-excel";
> $cmd = $XLS2HTML;
>
> to
>
> # Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
> if ($XLS2HTML) {
> $mime_type =
> "application/msexcel|application/vnd.ms-excel|application/excel";
> $cmd = $XLS2HTML;
>
This fixed my problem for excel, and i repeated this procedure for
powerpoint.
thanks.
> My apologies for being too lazy to make that into a patch.
>
> Can anybody confirm that "application/excel" is a standard MIME-type?
>
I am not sure, although I have not found any reference to it.
Perhaps I should modify our web server's conf.
cheers,
adrian
> --
> David Adams
> Computing Services
> Southampton University
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adrian Bolzan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 7:41 AM
> Subject: [htdig] Parsing Excel and Powerpoint files
>
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am having trouble parsing Excel and Powerpoint files.
> >
> > I am using "xlhtml" and "ppthtml".
> >
> > Using application/msexcel (or application/vnd.ms-excel) from the
> > command line converts the documents. The command I used was:
> >
> > $ /usr/local/bin/doc2html.pl /var/httpd/aotnet/htdocs/PDFs/test.x ls
> > application/msexcel http://URL/test.xls /home/httpd/aotne
> > t/htdocs/search/conf/htdig.conf
> >
> > However, when i use these content types in htdig.conf the excel and
> > powerpoint documents are not parsed.
> >
> > I see that the content type is application/excel when using the
> > command -vvv option with htdig. However, the .xls files are not
> > parsed when using this content type at the command prompt nor when
> > used in htdig.conf.
> >
> > Similar effects are seen for powerpoint documents.
> >
> > Word docs (catdoc), PDF's (pdf2html.pl) and RTF's (rtf2html.pl) are
> > fine.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > Adrian
> >
> >
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