On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 14:15 +0100, Joan Balaguero wrote:
> Hello Oleg,
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> Im having an strange issue with encoding using HttpClient 4.0.1.
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> Im sending a string to a servlet using HttpClient 4.0.1. The servlet just
> sends back to the client exactly the same received string:
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> This is the piece of code that sends the string to the servlet and receives
> the response:
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> ( . . . )
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> String ENCODING = ISO-8859-1;
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> String str = "ÑÑÑ_ÁÁÁ";
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> objPost = new HttpPost(url);
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> StringEntity strEntity = new StringEntity(str);
>
This constructor assumes default charset encoding for HTTP content which
is ISO-8859-1.
> strEntity.setContentType("text/plain; charset=" + ENCODING);
>
This basically causes the content to be decoded incorrectly as long as
ENCODING is not ISO-8859-1.
Oleg
> objPost.setEntity(strEntity);
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> HttpEntity entity = null;
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>
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> try
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> {
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> entity = objHttp.execute(objPost).getEntity();
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> // Read the response.
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> BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(entity.getContent());
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> ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
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> byte[] buffer = new byte[4098];
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> int numBytes;
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> while ((numBytes = bis.read(buffer)) >= 0) bos.write(buffer, 0, numBytes);
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> System.out.println("RESPONSE = " + new String(bos.toString(ENCODING));
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> ( . . . )
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> And this is the piece of code of the servlet that prints the request
> inputstream directly to the response outputstream:
>
>
>
> ( . . . )
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> BufferedOutputStream bos = null;
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>
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> try
>
> {
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> response.setContentType(request.getContentType());
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> bos = new
> BufferedOutputStream(response.getOutputStream());
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> InputStream in = request.getInputStream();
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> byte[] tmp = new byte[4098];
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> int numBytesRead = 0;
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> while ((numBytesRead = in.read(tmp, 0, 4098)) >= 0) bos.write(tmp, 0,
> numBytesRead);
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>
>
> ( . . . )
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> If the ENCODING variable is ISO-8859-1, the response is received OK:
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> RESPONSE = ÑÑÑ_ÁÁÁ
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> But if the ENCODING variable is UTF-8, the response is received KO:
>
> RESPONSE = "???_???"
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> In this case, if I force an iso decoding in the line:
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> System.out.println("RESPONSE = " + new String(bos.toString(ISO-8859-1));
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> Then it works: RESPONSE = ÑÑÑ_ÁÁÁ
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> Could be an issue in StringEntity? Or maybe Im missing anything?
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> Thanks in advance,
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>
>
> Joan.
>
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