I have a servlet that outputs HTML and embeds a video which is outside of the webapp directory. I use the following path to call on the video file:///c:/video_name and it plays in ie7 but not firefox. In firefox it shows a blank page but if i view source and save it as a new file to my desktop then open it in firefox the video plays.
Thank you for any suggestions
IE is just dumb and leaky.
Use relative webcontent paths instead of absolute filesystem paths.
If those files aren't available in the webcontent, write kind of a fileservlet which streams files from the absolute path to the webcontent.
Not specific for your needs, but all you need to to is to play with the content-disposition.
http://balusc.xs4all.nl/srv/dev-jep-img.html
http://balusc.xs4all.nl/srv/dev-jep-fil.html
thanks fo the help i have implemented you approach. I am having an issue with:
<EMBED SRC="servlet/VideoStreamer?name="><%=request.getParameter("videopath")%>"
not actually calling the servlet even though my url mapping is /servlet/VideoStreamer.
