https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48892
Summary: Use URIEncoding from server.xml for decoding post data sent with application/x-www-form-urlencoded mime type Product: Tomcat 7 Version: unspecified Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: Connectors AssignedTo: dev@tomcat.apache.org ReportedBy: e...@omikron.net Here is a simple scenario. I have a HTML page served by tomcat with "Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8": <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body> <form method="POST" action="test.jsp" accept-charset="utf-8" method="post" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" > <input type="text" name="P"/> <input type="submit" value="subMit"/> </form> </body> </html> When this form is submitted the browser will encode the value of the input field using UTF-8. It will create a POST request header with a content type line like this: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded I checked this behavior using FF3.6 and IE8. Both browsers will omit the charset param in the Content-Type header. When parsing this request Tomcat will try to get the encoding from the content type header line (org.apache.coyote.Request.getCharacterEncoding()). Since there is no charset param in the content type header, Tomcat will use the standard encoding ISO-8859-1 (org.apache.catalina.connector.Request.parseParameters()). Which is obviously wrong in this case. There is no way to force the browser to put the charset in the content type header (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2418944/how-to-force-browser-to-set-charset-in-content-type-http-header). A good solution for this problem would be to use the URIEncoding connector setting for application/x-www-form-urlencoded encoded post requests. After all the encoding names says "URLencoded". -- Configure bugmail: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org