Hello Jaya,
> 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.
Do not touch the Content-Type header. It's one of the
things that's handled by HttpClient. Whatever you do
to that header can only make things worse.
> 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"););
www-form-urlencoded is US-ASCII by definition. The only
charset allowed in URLs is US-ASCII. It is pure luck
(or tolerant behavior of libraries and servers) that it
worked with Latin-1 at all.
> // set the input parameters
> Iterator it = paramList.keySet().iterator();
> while (it.hasNext()) {
> String paramName = (String) it.next();
> postmethod.addParameter(paramName,
> paramList.get(paramName));
> }
If you need to support charsets, you can't use
PostMethod.addParameter(). Use PostMethod.setRequestEntity()
instead, with a MultiPartRequestEntity:
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/apidocs/org/apache/commons/httpclient/methods/multipart/MultipartRequestEntity.html
You can set the HTTP_CONTENT_CHARSET parameter to UTF-8:
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/apidocs/org/apache/commons/httpclient/params/HttpMethodParams.html#HTTP_CONTENT_CHARSET
hope that helps,
Roland
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