"Eric Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Bill, > > I have been trying to trace down a problem with an application I am building > on top of Tomcat 4.1. The problem I was encountering was that my HTTP > response headers were being returned to the client using UTF-8 encoding. > > My understanding of RFC 2068 is that all request and response headers should > be encoded as ISO-8859-1. The only mechanism for supporting other encodings > is by use of RFC 2047.
I seem to remember that UTF-8 was choosen based on what browsers seemed to want. You're correct that RFC 2616 specifies ISO-8859-1. > > The issue becomes more curious when I notice that tomcat uses ISO-8859-1 to > encode response headers if the request is routed through the internal HTTP > 1.1 implementation. However, if the request uses the Coyote JK > implementation, then the header strings are encoded as UTF-8. This is being > done explicitly in org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler line 281. > > Is there any explanation why the Jk code is writing out the headers in > UTF-8? > It's been doing this for a long time, but as I recall, it was to catch edge cases for some browsers. It would be interesting to know what header value is giving you trouble in which client. > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Eric Jacobson > Software Engineer > FileMaker Inc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]