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Problems with EBCDIC host

           Summary: Problems with EBCDIC host
           Product: Tomcat 5
           Version: 5.0.25
          Platform: Other
               URL: http://127.0.0.1:8080/admin/index.jsp
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: Webapps:Administration
        AssignedTo: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: Dirk.Schwartzkopff@gmx.de


Platform: IBM mainframe zSeries
OS: z/OS 1.4
Tomcat Version 4.1.30, 5.0.25
URLEncoder uses EBCDIC (the platform encoding) to translate the characters. The
result is
http://127.0.0.1/admin/users/listRoles.do?databaseName=Users%7Atype%7EUserDatabase%6Bdatabase%7EUserDatabase&forward=Roles+List+Setup
instead of
http://127.0.0.1/admin/users/listRoles.do?databaseName=Users%3Atype%3DUserDatabase%2Cdatabase%3DUserDatabase&forward=Roles+List+Setup

Bill Barker sended me the following email regarding this problem:
Looking at the admin webapp, is seems that it is using java.net.URLEncoder
instead of o.a.c.u.URLEncoder.  The javadocs for the java.net class say that it
has exactly the problem that you are describing (i.e. it uses the platform
encoding).  
 
The fix is to either use java.net.URLEncoder.encode(..., "utf8") (with the
downside that the admin webapp can't be used with a 1.3 JVM), or to use
o.a.c.u.URLEncoder as a Bean (since the encode method isn't static).  In either
case, I guess you get to open a new bug report for this :).

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