Mathis, I have double-checked the code and so far I have got no reason to assume it produces errnous results. I have run a simple echo test against HttpClient test web application. All Umlauts appear to be doing fine there.
I do not know the inner working of the CGI application you are using to perform content encoding check. So, I can't tell if everything is all right there I can advise you to run your test locally with the following system properties: -Dorg.apache.commons.logging.Log=org.apache.commons.logging.impl.SimpleLog -Dorg.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.httpclient.wire=debug -Dorg.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.org.apache.commons.httpclient=debug You sould see the following line in the debug trace, if encoding charset has not been explicitly specified: [DEBUG] HttpMethod - -Default charset used: ISO-8859-1 Or better yet, send the debug trace for examination Oleg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]