Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.2 Developer's Guide

parameter-encoding

Specifies the default request character encoding and how the web container decodes parameters from forms according to a hidden field value.

If both the sun-web-app and locale-charset-info elements have parameter-encoding subelements, the subelement of sun-web-app takes precedence. For encodings, see http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/guide/intl/encoding.doc.html.

Superelements

locale-charset-info, sun-web-app (sun-web.xml)

Subelements

none

Attributes

The following table describes attributes for the parameter-encoding element.

Table A–78 parameter-encoding Attributes

Attribute  

Default  

Description  

form-hint-field

none 

(optional) The name of the hidden field in the form. This field specifies the character encoding the web container uses for request.getParameter and request.getReader calls when the charset is not set in the request’s content-type header.

default-charset

ISO-8859-1

(optional) The default request character encoding.