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Rainer,
On 1/30/2010 7:56 AM, Rainer Jung wrote:
> So I expect you can forward any binary garbage you like, as long as you
> make sure the code putting it into the environment variables doesn't
> already do any encoding or decoding.
This was pretty much just as I expected.
> Now: it seems that Tomcat is by default assuming it needs to transform
> the binary AJP data stream for request attributes into ISO-8859-1
> decoded Java strings. I'm not 100% sure here, but this is the likely the
> most important part of the game.
It looks like AprProtocol.java, in prepareRequest, handles request
attributes in the SC_A_REQ_ATTRIBUTE case. No encoding/decoding is done
there. Instead, it is done by the MessageBytes class, indirectly by the
ByteChunk class.
The documentation for ByteChunk says:
* In a server it is very important to be able to operate on
* the original byte[] without converting everything to chars.
* Some protocols are ASCII only, and some allow different
* non-UNICODE encodings. The encoding is not known beforehand,
* and can even change during the execution of the protocol.
* ( for example a multipart message may have parts with different
* encoding )
*
* For HTTP it is not very clear how the encoding of RequestURI
* and mime values can be determined, but it is a great advantage
* to be able to parse the request without converting to string.
Later:
/** Default encoding used to convert to strings. It should be UTF8,
as most standards seem to converge, but the servlet API requires
8859_1, and this object is used mostly for servlets.
*/
public static final String DEFAULT_CHARACTER_ENCODING="ISO-8859-1";
If ByteChunk.setEncoding has not been called, this default encoding is
used to decode bytes. Unfortunately, setEncoding is not static, so you
have to have a reference to the ByteChunk object in order to fix it.
Then again, knowing that ISO-8859-1 is being used may make it easier to
write a transcoder...
new String(myString.getBytes("ISO-8859-1"), "UTF-8")
That's ugly and I feel like it's asking for problems, but it might be
your only reasonable recourse.
- -chris
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