Hello Tomcat users,
I'm developing an application in Jboss 4.0.2, which uses Tomcat 5.5.9
as web tier.
I'm trying to make Tomcat decoding the request body with the correct
encoding. I have problems with IE and Firefox as well. The html page
has the meta tag:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" >
all characters are displayed well in both browsers, the page encoding
appears correctly set to UTF-8. The problems arises when I try to
submit "strange" characters as currency symbols (euro, pound, yen,
...) in a form text box.
Debugging Tomcat source, I see the following in the
org.apache.catalina.connector.Request: the parseParameters() method
tries to get the correct encoding:
String enc = getCharacterEncoding();
the ContentType.getCharsetFromContentType() tries to infer the correct
character encoding from the request Content-Type header, but since it
is not set it returns null:
public static String getCharsetFromContentType(String type) {
if (type == null) {
return null;
}
int semi = type.indexOf(";");
if (semi == -1) {
return null;
}
Here the problem is the content type of the http request coming from
the browser is as follows (as grabbed by an http tracer):
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Hence, it doesn't contain any ";charset=utf-8" appended, as expected.
The body looks to me correctly encoded in UTF-8 format.
Thus, the parseParameters() parses the parameters with its default
character encoding which is ISO-8859-1:
parameters.setEncoding
(org.apache.coyote.Constants.DEFAULT_CHARACTER_ENCODING);
Now, I know this is not a Tomcat problem, but I don't know how to
force the client to sent the correct information to the server. Any
ideas how to solve this?
It was nice also if I could set up Tomcat default encoding to UTF-8,
without recompiling the source (I have some requirements on the
Jboss/Tomcat: I can't use a modified or different version).
By the way, I already tried to update the file
$CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml for UTF-8 support by connectors with
the parameter URIEncoding="UTF-8".
Thanks for your help,
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TREMALNAIK
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