- From: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 11:32:43 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: "Skorupa, Grzegorz" <gs@inwar.com.pl>
- cc: "'www-jigsaw@w3.org'" <www-jigsaw@w3.org>
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Skorupa, Grzegorz wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've created a servlet with doPost method:
>
> public void doPost(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
> throws ServletException, IOException
> {
>
> System.out.println(req.getCharacterEncoding());
> ...
> }
>
> I invoke this servlet from html page (including a form with POST action)
> with
>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
> content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-2">
>
> in it's header.
>
> And getCharacterEncoding() always returns "ISO-8859-1".
>
> I don't know what's going. Please help!
Well, there is no http headers containing the right character encoding.
Your trick to set the character encoding rely on the fact that a specific
browser will parse the HTML and use it as a fake HTTP header.
For your servlet, the character encoding field has to be present as a real
http header.
Regards,
k
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