Re: JSTL: POST vs GET

[Hans Bergsten]

Evgeny Gesin wrote:
I just tried these configuration parameters, except
QueryStringEncoding which I cannot find in Tomcat docs
for server.xml (I don't use Tomcat API) without much
luck.
At least the bug indicates that problem exists and
POST is a quick solution.
But I want to hear, if I move to Tomcat 5 (currently
run 4.1), will that solve the problem ?
Ah, I believe what I said is true for recent versions of both Tomcat 5
and Tomcat 4. With regards to "solving the problem", see the bug report
description: either use POST instead of GET, or set the configuration
flags (the docs may not have been updated to describe them yet).
Hans

--- Hans Bergsten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Evgeny Gesin wrote:

Hi,
I will provide a little more information, may be
that

will be important.

1. I use an in-house developed Tiles, similar to
Struts, so each page is make up of of dinamically
included pages, for example, header, content and
footer JSPs.
2. I use only i18n from JSTL package, so web.xml
have

a single declaration for that JSTL library as
below

<taglib>
<taglib-uri>fmt</taglib-uri>

<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/tld/fmt-1_0-rt.tld</taglib-location>

</taglib>

3. A "wrapper" Tile page declares
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html;
charset=UTF-8" %>
4. A "template" Tile page declares
<META HTTP-EQUIV="content-type"
CONTENT="text/html;

charset=UTF-8" />

5. Each "included" JSP page has these lines

<%@ taglib uri='fmt' prefix='fmt' %>
<jsp:useBean id="locale" scope="session"
class="java.util.Locale" />
<fmt:setLocale value="<%= locale %>" />
<fmt:bundle basename="bundle">
<TABLE>
 <fmt:message key="header" />
 <FORM ACTION="anAction" METHOD=GET>
... <-- here are all JSP/HTML tags
 </FORM>
</TABLE>
</fmt:bundle>
JSP may also use <fmt:> to format numbers and
currencies. Please ask if you need more
information.

You can visit http://www.javadesk.com and see that
all

pages are UTF-8 encoded.

A characterEncodingFilter sets encoding

request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
response.setContentType("text/html;
charset=UTF-8");

Now, if I submit the above web page, all UTF-8
encoded

data became gibberish. If I replace 

<FORM ACTION="anAction" METHOD=GET>
with
<FORM ACTION="anAction" METHOD=POST>
everything works fine. What is wrong ?
Tomcat 5 doesn't use the encoding you set with
setCharacterEncoding()
for query string parameters, only for parameters in
a POST body:
<http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12253>

Hans


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Hans Bergsten                                <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gefion Software                       <http://www.gefionsoftware.com/>
Author of O'Reilly's "JavaServer Pages", covering JSP 2.0 and JSTL 1.1
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