Display a Windows help file (*.chm) from a Forms 11g session
My forms application invokes a help file held in Microsoft Compiled Help format - *.chm. The file is opened using web.show_document. In 10g, this gives me a 'File save or open' dialogue. In 11g, the file is displayed as text - i.e. the compressed file is displayed as if the file was HTML and so is unreadable.
I think the problem is that there is no mapping for the mime type in the Weblogic Server, however I can't find out how to set this! Normally, this would be done in web.xml but I can't work out where this would be - there are many of them on the server. Using Admin server, there is a suggestion that the mapping should be in a file 'mimepapping.properties', which doesn't exist. I've create one and set the mapping in here but again, this doesn't seem to help.
I'm using forms 11.1.1.3 on WLS 10.3.3, Windows XP and IE7.
Can anyone help?
Matthew Smith.