Re: How to force CRLF on non .txt files when directory browsing?

[Jonathon Veencamp <jdveencamp@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'll quantify the problem a little better.  If I go on linux to the directory I am browsing via the HTTP server and issue these commands:

# touch test.log
# echo one >> test.log
# echo two >> test.log
# cp test.log test.log.txt

 

If I use my brower to open test.log, it launches notepad on Windows which contains a single line:

one two

 

and this has a square character after each of the words.  Undisplayable character.  If I view this in a hex editor, it's just a LF.

If I use my browser to open test.log.txt, then the browser displays

one

two

 

And if I do a view source in the browser, then it is simple text with no tags. If I view this in a hex editor, it has a CR/LF.    So obviously the HTTP server is processing it differently.  What I want is for the server to treat .log files the same as it does .txt files.  But I'll be darned if I can find anyone else that tried to solve this same problem.  I've googled for hours on this.  Though maybe I'm a poor googler.  ;-)

 

TIA

Jon

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Jonathon Veencamp <jdveencamp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't think it's a poor editting thing.  I think this is the difference between Unix and Windows and CR/LF on Windows versus LF on Linux.  The HTTP server is adding CR/LF to .txt files to display them correctly in the browser.  But I can't get it to display .log files in the same manner.

 

Thanks both of you for the very quick replies.  This is my first question via this list, and it was suprisingly fast response!

 

Jon

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Daniel Reinhardt <cryptodan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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From: "Jonathon Veencamp" <jdveencamp@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 09 February, 2010 19:31
To: <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [users@httpd] How to force CRLF on non .txt files when directory browsing?

Hello,

I've beat my head on this wall far too long, and googled the heck out of it,
so I'll ask the mailing list on what should be a simple problem.

I have some text files on a linux host with .log and .properties
extensions.  When these are sent to a windows browser, they do not have
CR/LF and so each line wraps to the next and they don't format well in the
browser.  I would like to have the Apache HTTP server treat these the same
as .txt files, but I've been unable to find the configuration I need to
change.

I tried adding
AddType text/html .log
AddType text/html .properties

and that didn't do it.  Then I tried
AddHandler type-map .log
AddHandler type-map .properties

and that was a no go.

I tried adding these to the mime.types file.

About all I can think of now is to process these files via a CGI script to
output them line by line with a <BR> if necessary, but that seems like
complete overkill.

Can anyone help?

TIA

Jon

Jon,

I think what you are experiencing is poor editing or formatting of the log files when they were saved, are these log files created and then placed in a file?  Or are they stored in the directory you currently have them?

Thanks,
Dan

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