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    <p><strong>Usage scenario</strong></p> <p>We have implemented a webservice that our web frontend developers use (via a php api) internally to display product data. On the website the user enters something (i.e. a query string). Internally the web site makes a call to the service via the api.</p> <p><strong>Note: We use restlet, not tomcat</strong> </p> <p><strong>Original Problem</strong></p> <p>Firefox 3.0.10 seems to respect the selected encoding in the browser and encode a url according to the selected encoding. This does result in different query strings for ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8.</p> <p>Our web site forwards the input from the user and does not convert it (which it should), so it may make a call to the service via the api calling a webservice using a query string that contains german umlauts.</p> <p>I.e. for a query part looking like </p> <pre><code> ...v=abcädef </code></pre> <p>if "ISO-8859-1" is selected, the sent query part looks like</p> <pre><code>...v=abc%E4def </code></pre> <p>but if "UTF-8" is selected, the sent query part looks like</p> <pre><code>...v=abc%C3%A4def </code></pre> <p><strong>Desired Solution</strong></p> <p>As we control the service, because we've implemented it, we want to check on <strong>server side</strong> wether the call contains non utf-8 characters, if so, respond with an 4xx http status</p> <p><strong>Current Solution In Detail</strong></p> <p>Check for each character ( == string.substring(i,i+1) )</p> <ol> <li>if character.getBytes()[0] equals 63 for '?'</li> <li>if Character.getType(character.charAt(0)) returns OTHER_SYMBOL</li> </ol> <p><strong>Code</strong></p> <pre><code>protected List&lt; String &gt; getNonUnicodeCharacters( String s ) { final List&lt; String &gt; result = new ArrayList&lt; String &gt;(); for ( int i = 0 , n = s.length() ; i &lt; n ; i++ ) { final String character = s.substring( i , i + 1 ); final boolean isOtherSymbol = ( int ) Character.OTHER_SYMBOL == Character.getType( character.charAt( 0 ) ); final boolean isNonUnicode = isOtherSymbol &amp;&amp; character.getBytes()[ 0 ] == ( byte ) 63; if ( isNonUnicode ) result.add( character ); } return result; } </code></pre> <p><strong>Question</strong></p> <p>Will this catch all invalid (non utf encoded) characters? Does any of you have a better (easier) solution?</p> <p><strong>Note:</strong> I checked URLDecoder with the following code</p> <pre><code>final String[] test = new String[]{ "v=abc%E4def", "v=abc%C3%A4def" }; for ( int i = 0 , n = test.length ; i &lt; n ; i++ ) { System.out.println( java.net.URLDecoder.decode(test[i],"UTF-8") ); System.out.println( java.net.URLDecoder.decode(test[i],"ISO-8859-1") ); } </code></pre> <p>This prints:</p> <pre><code>v=abc?def v=abcädef v=abcädef v=abcädef </code></pre> <p>and it does <strong>not</strong> throw an IllegalArgumentException <em>sigh</em></p>
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