Does URIEncoding affect all HTTP headers or only the URIs? Thanks, Byron
-----Original Message----- From: Tim Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 6:31 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: RFC-2047 Header Character Set Encoding JK + Tomcat 5 You may need to add this to your Connector declaration: URIEncoding="UTF-8" -Tim Guernsey, Byron (GE Consumer & Industrial) wrote: > Is there a FAQ on how Tomcat 5 and JK1 implement HTTP header character > sets? (ie, does it support RFC-2047) > > We use some single sign-on plugin's at the web server (apache 2) that > set specific headers which may contain international characters. The > headers are being returned by Tomcat to jsps/servlets in such a way > that the strings decode properly only if the browser is forced to view > them as UTF-8. > > This implies that the values are actually UTF-8 encoded, but > improperly assumed to be ISO-8859-1 as some point. > > I have not yet tracked down which component in the chain is at fault. > It may very well be that the SSO plugin is calling the Apache API to > set Headers with UTF-8 values when they accept only ISO-8859-1 values, > or values encoded per RFC-2047. > > I'd like to find out what mod_jk expects the header values to be when > it retrieves them from Apache, and whether Tomcat supports RFC-2047 > decoding of header values. > > If anyone has any experience with this, or can refer me to a > discussion or thread about this very item, I'd greatly appreciate the > tip. I'm not looking forward to the amount of inspection I'm going to > have to do to find the culprit. > > thanks, > Byron > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
