Marvin, This question has come up a few times and we've actually probably answered it providing both the solutions you mentioned below. That means its probably a good thing to document (which of of course, we never get around to actually doing!). If you get a minute, I would be eternally grateful if you documented it ;-)
Cheers, Scott On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Marvin Addison <[email protected]>wrote: > Over the past year or so a number of folks have posted questions for > suggestions on how to deal with non-ascii data. We recently addressed > this ourselves by adding support for passwords containing non-ascii > characters. Although our LDAP infrastructure supports it, CAS did > not. I'd like to sketch out the points of our solution since I don't > think it's been discussed fully anywhere. Perhaps this can be moved > to the wiki if there's interest. > > 1. Ensure pageEncoding of login form JSP is UTF-8, <%@ page > pageEncoding="UTF-8" %> > 2. Ensure the HTML content type is UTF-8: > <%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %> > and > <head> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> > ... > </head> > (perhaps this is redundant, but it works nonetheless) > 3. Set the request characterEncoding property to UTF-8: > request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8"); > > The last point is one I had never heard discussed and was essential to > supporting username/password credentials containing non-ascii > characters. We took a recommendation from > http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/Tomcat/UTF-8 to implement setting > character encoding as a filter, > > http://code.google.com/p/vt-middleware/wiki/vtservletfilters#CharacterEncodingFilter > . > This approach appears to work well. > > Hope that helps, > M > > -- > You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: > [email protected] > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-user > -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-user
