Content Negotiation with JSP

[Lachlan Hunt]

Hi,
Is it possible to set up content negotiation to dynamically set the
content type of a JSP page? At the moment, the pages are hard coded
using the @page directive like this:
<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %>

and during development, I manually change it to application/xhtml+xml so
I can more quickly find validation errors, however I would like to be
able to determine what mime types are accepted by the client, and if
application/xhtml+xml is supported, deliver it, or text/html otherwise.
That would make development easier, and would mean that there is
actually a valid reason for using XHTML1, rather than HTML4, after
development is complete.

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[Andrew Thompson]

Is it possible to set up content negotiation to dynamically set the
content type of a JSP page? At the moment, the pages are hard coded
using the @page directive like this:
<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %>

Yes. It is best done by the server itself,
which either means negotiating with your host,
or if you are lucky enough to be running Apache,
uploading an .htaccess file with appropriate
scribings..

E.G.
AddType text/jsp jsp
AddCharset utf-8 .jsp

HTH