JBoss (Tomcat?) problems with mod_jk2, httpd, and UTF8 form submissions?

[Joshua McCulloch <co...@yahoo.com>]

I posted this on the JBoss forums and had no
responses. 
Although our environment is JBoss, I believe it would
also occur in Tomcat, although maybe not in latest
build?

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We're using JBoss fronted by Apache HTTPD 2.0.52 with
mod_jk2. Found a strange bug. When a HTTP parameter
(in this case, it is a submit button) is being posted
with a UTF-8 character (0xc3b3, Latin1 0xF3, lowercase
o with acute). This is actually being posted as UTF8
(0xc3b3), and either JBoss or more likely Tomcat is
not converting these two bytes to a single character
(\u00f3). I want the value to be sent in UTF8, so this
is correct. The problem is that somewhere along the
line the data is not being interpreted as UTF8 and
being read as two characters.

If I use a GET, it will still fail. However, if I
remove Apache from the picture, and use the
URIEncoding attribute as follows:

Code:

<Connector port="80" address="${jboss.bind.address}"
         maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25"
maxSpareThreads="75"
         enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443"
acceptCount="100"
         connectionTimeout="20000"
disableUploadTimeout="true" URIEncoding="UTF-8"/>	



It will work with a GET. Still will not work with
POST. I switched back to using Apache, and changed the
AJP connector to also use the URIEncoding attribute.
This fixed the GET, but POST is still not working
properly.

Other than changing our forms to use a GET, does
anyone know of a solution?

We're using JBoss 4.0.0, Httpd 2.0.52, and mod_jk2
(not sure of exact version).

Please let me know if I need to describe anything
further.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Josh


		
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