Encoding for Post-Requests

[firstlion]

Hello @all,

I have a new problem. Our webapplication has several input fields, which values are transferred via Post-Requests to the server. When i activate Picketlink, german Umlaute (ä, ö, ü) don't work anymore. Without Picketlink, there is no problem. The entire webapplication is encoded with UTF-8. Is there any configuration for the encoding, that Picketlink uses?

Edit:

"Dirty Solution": Use your own subclass of "SPPostFormAuthenticator" and override one method:

@Override
public boolean authenticate(Request request, HttpServletResponse response, LoginConfig config) throws IOException {
        request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
        response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8"); 
        return super.authenticate(request, response, config);
}

Without overriding this method, the request has no encoding and the response has a "ISO-xxxxxx"-encoding.

Thanks,

Martin

[anil.saldhana]

We can add the encoding to our authenticators.  But I am unsure where it will screw up other things in the Tomcat infrastructure. Character encoding is such a brittle topic in the web world.

[anil.saldhana]

Take a look here: http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/CharacterEncoding

[firstlion]

Sorry, i forgot to say, that i use the jboss as7, does it work the same way? I am just wondering, that it works without Picketlink (all the sites have specified the encoding).

[anil.saldhana]

JBoss AS7 uses tomcat derived JBossWeb.  So the character encoding guidance from tomcat wiki holds true.

Also look at https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/PLINK/SAML+Support+FAQs