Re: [jetty-discuss] POST Encoding Problem after Jetty Upgrade

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On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 21:50, Adam Augusta <ro...@gm...> wrote:
> I'm having an encoding issue after upgrading from Jetty 6.1.11 to
> Jetty 6.1.14.  Text data submitted via POST no longer gets
> interpretted as UTF-8.  If I post "Héy." the request object gives me
> "HÃ(c)y." in the resultant Java string.
>
> I get the same problem with Jetty 6.1.12.  Reverting to Jetty 6.1.11
> fixes the problem.  I tried adding
> "-Dorg.mortbay.util.URI.charset=utf-8" to my VM parameters with no
> luck.  I intercepted the HTTP request with Fiddler2 (MS proxy), and
> the correct bytes are encoded in the request.  (Fiddler2 also
> correctly identifies the post data as "Héy.")  Also, explicitly
> setting the enctype and the accept-charset attributes on the Form
> didn't help.
>
> I've included a simplified version of the web page and the controller
> code below.  Does anyone have any suggestions?  Is this a bug in Jetty
> or a configuration issue?
>
> Web page:
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>Submission to check encoding</title><meta content="text/html;
> Charset=utf-8" http-equiv="content-type" />
> </head><body>
> <form method="post"
> action="/www.einvite.com-6.0-SNAPSHOT/email/wording" id="theForm">
> <textarea name="testText" id="group1" rows="3" cols="40">Héy.</textarea>
> <input name="textSubmit" id="textSubmit" value="Submit Text" type="submit" />
> </form>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> Controller method: (Spring 2.5 gives the request object to the method):
>    @RequestMapping(value = "/texttest", method = RequestMethod.POST)
>    public String postTestText(final HttpServletRequest request) {
>        final String testText = request.getParameter("testText");
>        System.out.println("Text text: " + testText);
>        return "testText";
>    }

Can you post the value of the file.encoding system property ?
I'm trying to exclude the fact that you only get the garbling because
you print on the console.

Simon
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