Get Parameter Encoding

Question

I have a problem using spring mvc and special chars in a GET request. Consider the following method:

@RequestMapping(\"/update\")
public Object testMethod(@R         


        

Answer 1

You're having this problem, because the request differentiates between body encoding and URI encoding. A CharacterEncodingFilter sets the body encoding, but not the URI encoding.

You need to set URIEncoding="UTF-8" as an attribute in all your connectors in your Tomcat server.xml. See here: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/ajp.html

Or, alternatively, you can set useBodyEncodingForURI="True".

If you're using the maven tomcat plugin, just add this parameter:

mvn -Dmaven.tomcat.uriEncoding=UTF-8 tomcat:run