construct URL query string: character set encode/decode

Question

I'm trying to construct an URL with query string containing other characters (hebrew in my case). However, when my webapp receives the request, the extracted request parameters are gibrish...

How can I resolve this?

new URL("http://localhost:8080/SRV/page.jsp?param=" + URLEncoder.encode("heb text", "UTF-8")).openConnection();

target page:

<%
    System.out.println("Receive: " + request.getParameter("param"));
%>

I'm using tomcat6, jdk6, windows7 x64

edit: this is my page declaration:

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>

Welcome to SO. As suggested by Le Guen try adding <%@page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8"%> to your jsp and output the param in the web page. — Tony Rad
– Tony Rad, Commented Nov 9, 2012 at 1:30

nickdos · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-09 03:33:49Z

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Take a look at the $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml file and check the encoding setting:

<Connector port="8080" ... URIEncoding="UTF-8" />

It appears that Tomcat needs this setting for UTF-8 to work for HTTP request values, such as request parameters.

answered Nov 9, 2012 at 3:33

nickdos

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