UTF-8 Encoding on Gets with tomcat.

Looks like browsers dont UTF encode Gets correctly, or at least that whats observed. Take a form, make it a GET and put some UTF-chars in … eg 中国的网页

Then when it gets to the server ( in this case tomcat it comes out badly coded).

If you change the GET to a POST, encoding works Ok. It could be a tomcat issue assuming the get url is something it inst or it could be something more fundamental. It looks like it happens even when the URL is URL encoded.

January 12, 2007 | Filed Under Thought

 

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2 Responses to “UTF-8 Encoding on Gets with tomcat.”

  1. tOMPSON on January 29th, 2007 9:50 pm

    I just wrote an article about this topic, it should help you!

  2. Ian Boston on January 29th, 2007 10:27 pm

    Yes, thank you,

    setting URIEncoding=”UTF-8″ in the connector element in server.xml fixes the problem without the need to wrap the request and perform recoding.

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