How to recreate the issue:
In order to recreate the problem simply put an HTML input text box into a form.
When filling out the data in the browser on a windows box type ALT-0225 .
Then submit the form. The value will not be retrieved correctly. The only
work around I could come up with was to do this:
if (fileItem.isFormField())
{
String value = fileItem.getString("UTF-8");
}
But unfortunately this implies that you always have UTF-8. It seems to me that
the file upload library should account for the encoding in the method
".getString()" for FileItem. But since the encoding is always "ISO-8859-1"
there is no way to work around this issue. There are many questions on Stack
Overflow talking about this issue. It seems to be a common problem for people.
It is very common to have UTF-8 encoding these days especially at Universities.
Thanks,
Lance
-----Original Message-----
From: Bernd Eckenfels [mailto:e...@zusammenkunft.net]
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2016 2:18 PM
To: Commons Users List <user@commons.apache.org>
Subject: Re: [fileupload] UTF-8 encoding issue
Hello,
http headers are essentially ASCII. Especially for things like the boundary.
The arguments (filename) might be QP, but not all browsers like that.
Gruss
Bernd
Am Mon, 1 Aug 2016 12:10:24 -0700
schrieb Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>:
> I can see that
> in org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileUploadBase.getBoundary(String)
> we have:
>
> boundary = boundaryStr.getBytes("ISO-8859-1");
>
> Should that be:
>
> boundary = boundaryStr.getBytes(headerEncoding);
>
> ?
>
> Gary
>
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Campbell, Lance <la...@illinois.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > There is still an issue.
> > I had a typo in my email. There should not have been the line
> > resp.setContentType("UTF-8");
> >
> > Sorry.
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Campbell, Lance [mailto:la...@illinois.edu]
> > Sent: Monday, August 01, 2016 12:51 PM
> > To: 'user@commons.apache.org' <user@commons.apache.org>
> > Subject: [fileupload] UTF-8 encoding issue
> >
> > Commons File Upload 1.3.2
> >
> > I am using the commons file upload version 1.3.2 via servlets for
> > apache-tomcat 8. All of my servlets work with UTF-8 except for when
> > I am using the commons file upload library. It seems to be setting
> > the encoding to "ISO-8859-1" . I have set both the request and
> > response headers to UTF-8. I have also set the Java VM to use
> > UTF-8.
> >
> > How can I get around this issue?
> >
> > I have read online to do the following:
> > req.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
> > resp.setContentType("UTF-8");
> > resp.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
> >
> > I have also read to set this at the form:
> >
> > accept-charset="UTF-8"
> >
> > It seems like your code is hardcoding the encoding to "ISO-8859-1"
> > in the class FileUploadBase.
> >
> > Why not allow us to set the encoding in a method then use the
> > "ISO-8859-1" as a fall back?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Lance Campbell
> >
> >
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