JBoss AS 7.1 - Request Parameters encoding
jboss, jboss7.x
Solution
I came into the same issue but in Jboss 5.1, and I solved it adding the URIEncoding attribute to the HTTP Connector (in jbossweb/server.xml) and decoding the URL/GET parameters manually.
But the way to define it in Jboss7 is different from previous versions, but googling a bit I found this link: basically you've to add the following lines in the standalone.xml or domain.xml file after the end of the `</extensions>` tag (it looks like you've already done this step ;-):
<system-properties>
<property name="org.apache.catalina.connector.URI_ENCODING" value="UTF-8"/>
<property name="org.apache.catalina.connector.USE_BODY_ENCODING_FOR_QUERY_STRING" value="true"/>
</system-properties>
Moreover you've to decode manually the URI or parameter with the help of the java.net.URIEncoder object:
String param = URLDecoder.decode(request.getParameter("text"), "UTF-8");
BalusC has an interesing post in his blog about it.
And finally, a second solution, if you want to avoid using the previous options: have you considered using the POST method instead of the GET one?
I hope it helps.
Problem
I have everything in UTF-8. That includes Content-Type, database, files, java, everything (unless I've missed something). I follow a lot of stackoverflow answers, JIRAs, blogs, and etc, but, it still failing. The problem itself is the following: When I submit, let's suppose, to `http://localhost:8080/app/searh?text=café`, debugging, my `request.getParameter("text")` is always wrong, something like `café`, and `request.getCharachterEncoding()` gives me `null` (?). Looking at the request headers, I got this: ``` GET http://localhost:8080/app/search?text=caf%C3%A9 HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost:8080 Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/24.0.1312.69 Safari/537.17 Referer: http://localhost:8080/app/search?text=n%C3%A3o Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch Accept-Language: pt-BR,pt;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.4 Accept-Charset: UTF-8,*;q=0.5 Cookie: JSESSIONID=OMMITED ``` And the response headers: ``` HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1 Pragma: No-cache Cache-Control: no-cache Expires: Wed, 31 Dec 1969 21:00:00 BRT Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Encoding: gzip Vary: Accept-Encoding Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:06:24 GMT Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Connection: keep-alive ``` It's everything UTF-8. I just don't understand. I tried to pass `-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dfile.io.encoding=UTF-8 -DjavaEncoding=UTF-8` in my `standalone.conf` `JAVA_OPTS` variable, tried to put ``` <property name="org.apache.catalina.connector.URI_ENCODING" value="UTF-8"/> <property name="org.apache.catalina.connector.USE_BODY_ENCODING_FOR_QUERY_STRING" value="true"/> ``` in my `standalone.xml`. Nothing of this solves the issue. What can I try to do to fix this? Thanks in advance. BTW: Is a JBoss AS 7.1.1.