Hi Mark,
Thanks again for you help.
In order to help you help me (-' , I will give more details on my goal
and my problem:
I want to build a servlet which let application clients ( not HUMAN.a
client application, thus HTML forms will do no use here)
Send HTTP requests to the servlet, which queries a DB (Oracle), and then
the servlet sends back a response to the client application
The requests must support windows-1255 charset encoding (Windows Hebrew)
At first I decided to receive the request parameters , using GET request
, and I attached previously the code, which works fine , and I could
even for debug purpose send the request in the url of IE browser (though
the client application wouldn't use a browser ,but call GET request with
the parameters desired, using windows-1255 charset encoding)
After reading your response and other forums response, which agreed that
sending a non English characters in GET request is a bad idea,
I decided to implement it with POST. So now I have two problems
1. writing the servlet.
2. writing a client that will send requests using POST.
Here is a sample servlet and client. It should have worked but it don't
(-: , I figure it is a small thing, but did not found it till far.
THIS IS THE SERVER'S CODE:
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
public class Hebrew3test extends HttpServlet {
public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
request.setCharacterEncoding("cp1255");
response.setCharacterEncoding("cp1255");
response.setContentType("Text/html; cp1255");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
String name = request.getParameter("name");
out.println(name);
}
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
doPost(request, response);
}
}
THIS IS THE CLIENT'S CODE:
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
public class HttpClient_cp1255_2 {
try {
String host = "127.0.0.1"; //tomcat5 host - local
machine
port = "8083" //tomcat5 port
String data = "name=" +
URLEncoder.encode("\u05d9\u05d0\u05d9\u05e8", "cp1255"); // the unicode
for "Yair" in hebrew.
URL test = new
URL("http://"+host+":"+port+"/userprofile/hebrew3test";);
URLConnection req = test.openConnection();
req.setDoOutput(true);
req.setRequestProperty("Content-Type",
"application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=windows-1255");
req.setRequestProperty("Content-Length",
Integer.toString(data.length()));
OutputStream out = req.getOutputStream();
out.write(data.getBytes("Cp1255")); // writing the
request in Cp1255 encoding.
out.close();
InputStream in = req.getInputStream();
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new
InputStreamReader(in,"cp1255")); // reading the response in Cp1255
encoding.
String line;
File f = new File("in.txt"); // instead of getting my
name in hebrew . I get "????" four times 0xF9 in the text file in.txt
FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(f);
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(line);
fw.write(line);
}
fw.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
BTW,
One more thing , I modified /conf/server.xml and added attribute
URIEncoding="cp1255" useBodyEncodingForURI="true"
It still don't work
Yair
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: ג 20 אפריל 2004 23:29
To: 'Tomcat Users List'
Subject: RE: Getting a request in a non English character
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/config/http.html
Tomcat 4 ships with the same connector but the docs aren't quite up to
date on the web site.
Mark
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yair Fine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 10:48 PM
> To: 'Tomcat Users List'
> Subject: RE: Getting a request in a non English character
>
> Hi Mark,
> Thanks for your reply ,
> You wrote :
> "The Coyote HTTP/1.1 connector has a useBodyEncodingForURI attribute
> which if set to true will use the request body encoding to decode"
>
> Where can I configure the useBodyEncodingForURI attribute, is it in an
> XML file ? Which one ? Thanks
> Yair
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: ג 20 אפריל 2004 21:19
> To: 'Tomcat Users List'
> Subject: RE: Getting a request in a non English character
>
>
> You might find the text below useful. It is my standard text on
> character encoding.
>
> Mark
>
> REQUESTS
> ========
>
> There are a number of situations where there may be a requirement to
> use non-US ASCII characters in a URI. These include:
> - Parameters in the query string
> - Servlet paths
>
> There is a standard for encoding URIs
> (http://www.w3.org/International/O-URL-code.html) but this standard is
> not consistently followed by clients. This causes a number of
> problems.
>
> The functionality provided by Tomcat (4 and 5) to handle this less
> than ideal situation is described below.
>
> 1. The Coyote HTTP/1.1 connector has a useBodyEncodingForURI attribute
> which if set to true will use the request body encoding to decode the
> URI query parameters.
> - The default value is true for TC4 (breaks spec but gives
> consistent
> behaviour across TC4 versions)
> - The default value is false for TC5 (spec compliant but
> there may be
> migration issues for some apps)
> 2. The Coyote HTTP/1.1 connector has a URIEncoding attribute which
> defaults to ISO-8859-1. 3. The parameters class
> (o.a.t.u.http.Parameters) has a QueryStringEncoding field
> which defaults
> to the URIEncoding. It must be set before the parameters are parsed to
> have an effect.
>
> Things to note regarding the servlet API:
> 1. HttpServletRequest.setCharacterEncoding() normally only applies to
> the request body NOT the URI. 2. HttpServletRequest.getPathInfo() is
> decoded by the web container. 3. HttpServletRequest.getRequestURI() is
> not decoded by container.
>
> Other tips:
> 1. Use POST with forms to return parameters as the parameters are then
> part of the request body.
>
>
> RESPONSES
> =========
>
> HTML META
> tags are ignored by Tomcat. You may use <%@ page pagEncoding="..." %>
> for JSPs.
>
>
>
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