Gentlemen, The following occurs on Tomcat 6.0.20 or 6.0.35 on 64bit Linux $ java -version java version "1.6.0_26" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_26-b03) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.1-b02, mixed mode) It happends both with and without apache httpd frontend. I have a very simple servlet doing basically the following: protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException { response.setContentType("text/xml"); response.setCharacterEncoding("utf-16"); PrintWriter w = response.getWriter(); w.write("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\""+ response.getCharacterEncoding() +"\"?><root></root>"); } The first response after the start of tomcat contains the fe ff BOM <= Recv data, 8850 bytes (0x2292) 0000: 32 30 30 30 0d 0a fe ff 00 3c 00 3f 00 78 00 6d 2000.....<.?.x.m 0010: 00 6c 00 20 00 76 00 65 00 72 00 73 00 69 00 6f .l. .v.e.r.s.i.o But there is no BOM in an indentical subsequent request <= Recv data, 8850 bytes (0x2292) 0000: 32 30 30 30 0d 0a 00 3c 00 3f 00 78 00 6d 00 6c 2000...<.?.x.m.l 0010: 00 20 00 76 00 65 00 72 00 73 00 69 00 6f 00 6e . .v.e.r.s.i.o.n The more exact observation of me is that there is no BOM in a majority of subsequent identical requests. The BOM comes sometimes. I guess there is some writer, buffer or encoder not recycled properly. May I file a bug for this? Workaround: BOM seems to be always there if the java.io.OutputStreamWriter is used instead of tomcat's response.getWriter(): protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException { response.setContentType("text/xml"); response.setCharacterEncoding("utf-16"); ServletOutputStream out = response.getOutputStream(); Writer w = null; try { w = new OutputStreamWriter(out, response.getCharacterEncoding()); w.write("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\""+ response.getCharacterEncoding() +"\"?><root></root>"); } finally { if (w != null) { try { w.close(); } catch (Exception e) { log("Could not close writer", e); } } } } Best,
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