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As the recent update 2.0.0.10 of the Mozilla Firefox web browser is automatically updated to user's computers, a problem with DWA (iNotes) starts to occur. People can no longer send e-mail from DWA, or attach files using DWA.

The problem seems to be that a security fix in Firefox created this behaviour, and it is not something that Mozilla intends to fix. It is considered a feature, and not a bug. Domino will send a .jar file with the wrong MIME type (application/octet-stream which shoould be application/java-archive). IBM has been notified of the problem, and is hopefully woking on a long term fix. That will probably take time, though, so what can we do in the meantime?

We can fix it ourselves!

It's actually quite easy to fix the problem, but for those of you that has plenty of Domino servers, it will still take some time. Here's what you do:

1. Locate the file httpd (could also be named httpd.cnf, if I understand it correctly) in the Domino data directory.
2. Add the line "AddType .jar application/java-archive # Java Archive" where you feel is appropriate.
3. Save the file.
4. Restart the server. It might be enough to "tell http quit" and "load http" on the console, but I haven't tried this.
5. Tell any Firefox user to clear the cache before using DWA (iNotes).

Relevant links:
Notes/Domino 6 and 7 Forum post
Bugzilla@Mozilla – Bug 405643

1. Scott2008-05-27 19:56:01
Homepage: http://thebigredshark.com

Well worked for me, but just one note - the same problem occurs on Firefox 3 RC1.

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2. Peter von Stöckel2008-05-27 20:32:48

Actually, the same problem will occur on every version of Firefox from 2.0.0.10, since they have fixed a bug.

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3. Wim Pool2008-07-02 12:34:30

Thanks, solved my problem in a minute.
I tried the method at 4 to restart the server, worked fine.

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4. Mark King2008-07-11 04:22:15

I have looked and looked, and all I have is the httpd speed dial file. There is no cnf file which I assume is an apache type configuration file. Any other suggestions on something I am missing?

Mark

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5. Peter2008-07-11 10:01:05

The file could be named httpd.cnf, but it is usually named just httpd.

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