Spring MVC: CharacterEncodingFilter; why only set response encoding by force?

Question

I was having a look at the CharacterEncodingFilter provided by Spring MVC. I was wondering why it was only possible to set the response encoding when the request encoding was fo

Answer 1

If nothing else works, you can create a filter ( bean ) in security-Context.xml and set forceEnconding=true;

Don't forget to set the new custom-Filter: