http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/config/http.html
Tomcat 4 ships with the same connector but the docs aren't quite up to date on the web site. Mark > -----Original Message----- > From: Yair Fine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 10:48 PM > To: 'Tomcat Users List' > Subject: RE: Getting a request in a non English character > > Hi Mark, > Thanks for your reply , > You wrote : > "The Coyote HTTP/1.1 connector has a useBodyEncodingForURI attribute > which if set to true will use the request body encoding to decode" > > Where can I configure the useBodyEncodingForURI attribute, is it in an > XML file ? Which one ? > Thanks > Yair > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: ג 20 אפריל 2004 21:19 > To: 'Tomcat Users List' > Subject: RE: Getting a request in a non English character > > > You might find the text below useful. It is my standard text on > character encoding. > > Mark > > REQUESTS > ======== > > There are a number of situations where there may be a > requirement to use > non-US ASCII characters in a URI. These include: > - Parameters in the query string > - Servlet paths > > There is a standard for encoding URIs > (http://www.w3.org/International/O-URL-code.html) but this standard is > not consistently followed by clients. This causes a number of > problems. > > The functionality provided by Tomcat (4 and 5) to handle this > less than > ideal situation is described below. > > 1. The Coyote HTTP/1.1 connector has a useBodyEncodingForURI attribute > which if set to true will use the request body encoding to decode the > URI query parameters. > - The default value is true for TC4 (breaks spec but gives > consistent > behaviour across TC4 versions) > - The default value is false for TC5 (spec compliant but > there may be > migration issues for some apps) > 2. The Coyote HTTP/1.1 connector has a URIEncoding attribute which > defaults to ISO-8859-1. 3. The parameters class > (o.a.t.u.http.Parameters) has a QueryStringEncoding field > which defaults > to the URIEncoding. It must be set before the parameters are parsed to > have an effect. > > Things to note regarding the servlet API: > 1. HttpServletRequest.setCharacterEncoding() normally only applies to > the request body NOT the URI. 2. HttpServletRequest.getPathInfo() is > decoded by the web container. 3. HttpServletRequest.getRequestURI() is > not decoded by container. > > Other tips: > 1. Use POST with forms to return parameters as the parameters are then > part of the request body. > > > RESPONSES > ========= > > HTML META > tags are ignored by Tomcat. You may use <%@ page pagEncoding="..." %> > for JSPs. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]