Michael,
Do you mean "Does the AS/400 use an unusual character set?" Well,
when it comes to encoding, I begin to get lost in the discussion of
charsets, ASCII, and EBCDIC (IBM's standard). I would assume that the
data comes from the AS/400 in EBCDIC, but has to be transcoded as some
point. I'm not sure when/where the transcoding takes places.
Since you thought Firebug might be suspect in terms of how it presents
the response, I used Fiddler and WGET. When I using other tools (e.g.
Fiddler) to inspect the HTTP activity, it also shows the response the
garbled. Here's the response show by Fiddler:
�% ���������� [EMAIL PROTECTED] ������ z k% ������� z k% ������ z k
% ���� z@ % �%�
Here's the complete response from the Web server when the Content-Type
is 'application/json':
---
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:06:07 GMT
Server: Apache
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 86
�% ���������� [EMAIL PROTECTED] ������ z k% ������� z k% ������ z k
% ���� z@ % �%�
---
When changing the Content-Type to 'text/javascript', the response is
as expected. However, the correct standard for JSON-formatted HTTP
responses is to set the Content-Type to 'application/json'. Here's
the response when the Content-Type is set to 'text'javascript':
---
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:20:09 GMT
Server: Apache
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/javascript; charset=ISO-8859-1
56
{
"srvpgmresp": {
"status": "ok",
"purpose": "user",
"rtncod": "1",
"body": "Empty"
}
}
0
---
I really suspect the Apache Web server or some other software with its
hand in the transcoding process. Any help is appreciated.
On Apr 15, 3:34 am, Michael Stillwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I'd also check that the content you're getting from the server really
> is different (via e.g. wget or netcat or telnetting to the port)
> instead of trusting Firebug--I've never known Apache to change the
> encoding of anything that flows through it (adding headers is a
> different story), though Apache does have lots of modules that do lots
> of things and maybe transcoding is more necessary on AS/400... (Does
> it use an "unusual" character set?) --M.
>
> On Apr 14, 11:00 pm, broberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I cannot find any reference to 'defaultchartype' in my config file.
> > However, the Apache config starts out with a number of AddType
> > declarations that look promising...
>
> > AddType text/plain .java
> > AddType text/xml .xml
> > AddType text/x-hdml .hdml
> > AddType text/vnd.wap.wml .wml
> > AddType image/gif .gif
> > AddType text/html .htm
> > AddType text/html .html
> > AddType text/x-component .htc
>
> > Maybe I need to add...
>
> > AddType application/json .js
>
> > Let me know what you think. I'm going to research it a little more
> > before I make changes the Web server's configuration.
>
> > On Apr 14, 4:53 pm, "Brian Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Apache on the ass/400 never really thunk of it...
>
> > > which version?
>
> > > one thing you might want to check is the defaultchartype in the httpd.conf
> > > file or the server specific directives, thats the first thing i check
> > > when i
> > > have garbled output like that
>
> > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 5:45 PM, broberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > Yes, the code on your server works for me. Though I didn't seem to me
> > > > that it would make any difference, I had a quick thought that it might
> > > > be that I was using the GET method rather than the POST method.
> > > > However, changing the method had no effect.
>
> > > > I'm using Firebug to inspect the DOM, GET/POST request, and the
> > > > response. When I get the response back, it's garbled. As long as I
> > > > specify the content-type as 'text/javascript' (and set the evalJSON
> > > > parm to 'force'), the responseJSON property is populated correctly.
> > > > However, when I set the content-type to 'application/json', the
> > > > response (i.e. responseText property) comes back garbled. It contains
> > > > non-printable characters. It's quite strange. Here's a copy & paste
> > > > of the response:
>
> > > > �% ���������� [EMAIL PROTECTED] ������ z k% ������� z k%
> > > > ������ z k
> > > > % ���� z@ % �%
>
> > > > We're running Apache on an IBM AS/400 machine, so our instance of
> > > > Apache might not like the 'application/json' content type. Have you
> > > > heard of this before? Can the Apache config file impact the content
> > > > types the Apache Web Server is willing to serve up?
>
> > > > Thanks!
>
> > > > On Apr 14, 4:12 pm, Michael Stillwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > That works fine for me; see:
>
> > > > >http://beebo.org/scratch/test.html
>
> > > > > which Ajax.Requests:
>
> > > > >http://beebo.org/scratch/test.php
>
> > > > > --M.
>
> > > > > On Apr 14, 9:53 pm, broberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > > > {
> > > > > > "response": {
> > > > > > "status": "ok",
> > > > > > "purpose": "user",
> > > > > > "rtncod": "1234",
> > > > > > "body": "It worked"
> > > > > > }
>
> > > > > > }
>
> > > > > > On Apr 14, 3:13 pm, Michael Stillwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > > wrote:
>
> > > > > > > On Apr 14, 6:35 pm, broberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > In Firefox 2.x and IE6 (the browsers I've tested in thus far),
> > > > > > > > the
> > > > > > > > responseJSON property of the Ajax.Response object is null when I
> > > > set
> > > > > > > > the response content-type to "application/json".
>
> > > > > > > That should work. What's the exact JSON that's being returned
> > > > > > > from
> > > > > > > the server? If it's a string it needs to be quoted:
>
> > > > > > > "Hello, World!"
>
> > > > > > > --M.
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