6 Replies Latest reply on Jul 30, 2010 6:45 AM by jfclere

Tomcat encoding

jidehem Aug 27, 2009 8:08 AM

I'm using JBoss on a server with french locale.
All the pages displayed (JSP, servlets) are displaying correctly.
However, the error pages have a strange encoding (it is (correctly) interpreted by firefox as UTF-8).
For example, the 404 error page displays:

Etat HTTP 404 - /SIT/index.j

type Rapport d'Ã¯Â¿Â½tat

message /SIT/index.j

description La ressource demandÃ¯Â¿Â½e (/SIT/index.j) n'est pas disponible.
JBoss Web/2.1.3.GA

Thus it seems all pages directly generated by tomcat have the wrong encoding (encoded twice ?).

The logs from JBoss about tomcat shows the same behaviour:

13:53:11,780 INFO [Http11Protocol] DÃ¯Â¿Â½marrage de Coyote HTTP/1.1 sur http-localhost%2F127.0.0.1-8080
13:53:11,858 INFO [Http11Protocol] DÃ¯Â¿Â½marrage de Coyote HTTP/1.1 sur http-localhost%2F127.0.0.1-8443

Note: previewing this post, the special characters are re-interpreted and doesn't look the same as displayed in firefox.

1. Re: Tomcat encoding

jfclere Aug 31, 2009 6:37 AM (in response to jidehem)

According to a quick try:
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curl -v http://localhost:8080/toto
...
< HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
< Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
< Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
< Content-Length: 975
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What headers are you getting?
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2. Re: Tomcat encoding

jidehem Sep 1, 2009 3:32 AM (in response to jidehem)

Trying the same as you:
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curl -v http://localhost:8080/toto
...
< HTTP/1.1 404 Introuvable
< Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
< Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
< Content-Length: 979
< Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:16:27 GMT
<
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Thus it is the same result as for you.

Only the body of the response is wrongly encoded.
For example, the e acutes (Ã©) are replaced by the following 6 hexadecimal characters : C3 AF C2 BF C2 BD.
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3. Re: Tomcat encoding

jidehem Jul 28, 2010 1:08 PM (in response to jidehem)

Finally, I found that the problem was with the french localization properties files.
They are badly encoded in JBoss Web 2.1.3.GA (and I think version 2.1.x are affected until 2.1.4).
Fixing the property file solved this problem.

About JBoss Web 2.1.3.GA, I couldn't find where to download it's sources and binaries. The version used came with JBoss AS 5.1.0.GA.
I only found that the project changelog doesn't talk about 2.1.4.GA but the download section has a links to it.
Did version 2.1.3.GA exist in the JBoss Web project ?
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4. Re: Tomcat encoding

jfclere Jul 29, 2010 9:04 AM (in response to jidehem)

I have arranged the JBossWeb pages and upload the latest 2.1.x version.
Could you please try with 2.1.9.GA?

The 2.1.3.GA wasn't published.
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5. Re: Tomcat encoding

jidehem Jul 30, 2010 4:49 AM (in response to jfclere)

Thanks for the quick reply and updates !

I tried to use JBoss Web 2.1.9.GA, but didn't find how to integrate it in JBoss AS 5.1.0.GA (whose error messages tell it's using JBoss Web 2.1.3.GA).
Is it really JBoss Web which is bundled into JBoss AS (there is only a subset of JBoss Web library names in it (like servlet/jsp/el-api.jar)) ?
How to update it ?
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6. Re: Tomcat encoding

jfclere Jul 30, 2010 6:45 AM (in response to jidehem)

Get a subscription and you will have it

You can also compile JBossWeb and copy the jbossweb.jar to the jbossweb.jar(s) of the JBoss AS 5.1.0.GA.
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