Re: Encoding problem during authentication

[Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>]

I have just committed a fix for this.

Mark

Andrey Grebnev wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>   I suppose I found the problem with Tomcat. I have already
> write about it into tomcat-user mailting list but I did not
> get feedback.
> 
>   I have a problem under following environment:
>    - Windows XP SP2
>    - JDK 1.4.2_04
>    - Tomcat 5.5.9
>    - Struts 1.2.4
> 
>   I use characterEncodingFilter to setup UTF-8 encoding
> into request before
>   using the content of the request. When I submit form with
> POST
>   method it works well. I use FORM based authentication.
> 
>   However if I perform the following steps I have the
> problems with
>   encoding:
> 
>   1. Open JSP with HTML form which submit some UTF-8 string
> data using POST
>   method.
>   2. Waiting when the HTTP session is invalidated (session
> timeout).
>   3. Submit the form.
>   4. Because session is invalidated I need to
> re-authenticate myself.
>   5. After success authentication The processing of the
> original request is
>   continued.
>   6. The data of the form (from first step) is saved in
> incorrect
>   encoding.
> 
>   I suppose that Valve (FormAuthenticator) which
> responsible for authentication is
>   processed earlier then characterEncodingFilter and the
> parameters from
>   POST request are parsed using
>   DEFAULT_CHARACTER_ENCODING="ISO-8859-1" when the original
> request
>   information is saved into session.
> 
>   I have tried to specify
> enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;
>   charset=utf-8" attribute for my FORM tag. But e.g.
> Mozilla browser
>   specify only Content-Type:
> application/x-www-form-urlencoded header
>   and cut out specified charset.
> 
>   Any ideas?
> 
> --
> Best regards.
> Andrey Grebnev
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