And that's kind of correct. application/xml does not care of charset. but text/xml does.
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Alessandro Manzoni < [email protected]> wrote: > Il 03.03.2015 09.47, Alexey Panchenko ha scritto: > >> I am curious about how the client code looks now, before we continue >> complaining on the other end. >> Just trying to be fair. >> > 1 HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(); > 2 HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(uri); > 3 httppost.addHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml;charset=utf-8"); > 4 ByteArrayEntity entity = new ByteArrayEntity(output. > toByteArray()); > 5 // StringEntity entity = new StringEntity(new > String(output.toByteArray()), ContentType.TEXT_XML); > 6 httppost.setEntity(entity); > 7 HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost); > > That's it. Added line 3 and line 4 replaced line 5. > > > >> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Brett Ryan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> What confused me, is that I thought that tomcat should honor the >>>> >>> encoding set inside xml, while it just use content-type encoding or its >>> default one instead. >>> >>> Thats the correct behaviour. Your servlet container may choose to inspect >>> the POST data but there is no requirement for it to, thats up to you to >>> implement a filter as mentioned earlier. What if your XML was malformed, >>> what do you think it should do? The content could be anything for all it >>> cares. What would your processor do if the header of the XML said the >>> encoding was 8859-1, but the actual encoding was UCS-2? You wouldn't even >>> be able to read the header reliably, you would have to perform a series >>> of >>> rereads to get the right encoding. >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >>> >>> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
