: Starting with glassfishv3 (I think) UTF-8 is the default for URI. You : can see this by going to the admin site, clicking on Network Config | : Network Listeners | then select the listener. Select the tab "HTTP" and : about half way down, you will see URI Encoding: UTF-8. : : HOWEVER, that doesn't appear to be correct because following Abdelhamid ...
I know nothing about glassfish, but according to that forum URL i mentioned before, the URI Encoding option in glassfish explicitly (and evidently contenciously) does not apply to hte query args -- only the path, hence the two different config options mentioned in the FAQ... : http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=38020 ... : http://wiki.glassfish.java.net/Wiki.jsp?page=FaqHttpRequestParameterEncoding -Hoss