setRequestHeader question

[Jaya Srinivasan]

Hi

I am using Apache's HttpClient 3.0 and was noticing the following 

When I set the content header on the post method I am not able to parse the 
parameters on the backend i.e request.getParameters returns null. 
I am currently sending Latin-1 characters but we need to make it UTF-8 
compliant. Basically my question is how do I change the charset for the request 
body?

Here's what I am doing right now that doesn't work:

        // Create a method instance.
        PostMethod postmethod= new PostMethod(url);
        postmethod.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", 
"application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8"););

        // set the input parameters
        Iterator it = paramList.keySet().iterator();
        while (it.hasNext()) {
                 String paramName = (String) it.next();
                  postmethod.addParameter(paramName, paramList.get(paramName));
         }


        try {

            HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
            // Execute the method.
            client.executeMethod(postmethod);
       } catch (HttpException e) { 
           ...
        } catch (IOException e) {
           ....
        } finally {
            // Release the connection.
            method.releaseConnection();
        }

Thanks
Jaya